The Archer School for Girls
Legal name: The Archer School for Girls Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 954463705
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Phone
- 3108737020
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Secondary, High School
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $35,778,816
- Expenses
- $31,871,351
- Assets
- $130,296,462
- Liabilities
- $56,795,017
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- ELIZABETH ENGLISH (HEAD OF SCHOOL): $917,248 total reported compensation
- JANE PAQUET DAVIS (ASSOC. HOS FOR FINANCE & OPERATION): $386,188 total reported compensation
- KAREN PAVLISCAK (ASSOC. HOS TEACH & LEARN (THRU 9/24)): $375,699 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Archer School for Girls empowers the next generation of female leaders through a research-based, single-sex education that fosters innovation, community, and diversity.
What it reported doing in 2024
Archer is an independent college preparatory school for girls, with approximately 485 students from grades six to twelve during year ended june 30, 2025.founded on the compelling research on how girls learn best, the archer school educates girls and young women to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century. Every girl's voice is encouraged and strengthened in an atmosphere where honesty, respect and responsibility are the cornerstones of daily school life. Leadership experiences are central to each girl's development, along with meaningful involvement in the community. Critical thinking fosters intellectual curiosity, which develops a pattern of life-long learning. (cont. On sch. O)archer graduates courageous, committed and capable young women of character who take responsibility for their own physical, financial and emotional well-being and who possess the psychological flexibility and confidence to confront the significant changes of their lifetimes.each year, archer graduates approximately 70 young women.over 21% of our students receive some form of financial assistance. The school is dedicated to diversity. 20% of the faculty are persons of color. In addition, 45% of our students are of color, reflecting the diversity of the city of los angeles.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 80% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 86% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.6%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 81.1%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.77 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.9%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.09; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.44; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 69.6% of revenue deployed · 81.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $25.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $917K · 27 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.5M reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.