As of 2018[update] it operates two schools: City Language Immersion Charter (early childhood to grade 5) and The City School (grades 6–8).
Employees of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) initially suggested using Emerson Middle School as the location, but Emerson Middle parents, in the process of asking for more area parents to enroll in the LAUSD-operated Emerson, opposed the plan and started a petition against it.
[2] City High School had 116 students circa 2016, with 28% being non-Hispanic white.
The City School's student body in that period was 57% non-Hispanic white.
The middle school's demographics drew heavily from the Los Angeles Westside, and the founders of the charter network were based in the Westside.