Schools · Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA schools
Los Angeles’s public schools score well above California’s averages: 54% of students are proficient in reading against 48.5% statewide, and 80% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.6%. Kids attend one of 351 schools through grade 12, then one of 345 high schools, one of 71 high schools and one of 37 high schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
B−
Los Angeles’s School Grade: B-
The public schools Los Angeles’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 51% of California’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
BTest scoresC-Graduation
California school districts we grade (1,139)Better than 49%
Lower resultsHigher results
California towns with similar household incomes (550)Better than 43%
High confidence. Built on 21,909 tested students and a graduating class of 31,163; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on California’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of California only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in California with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path
Where Los Angeles kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
Well above the state in reading
Reading (grades K–12, Los Angeles Unified)54%
State average 48.5%
Math (grades K–12, Los Angeles Unified)29%
State average 33.4%
Graduation · class of 2020
80% graduate on time
Graduation rate
80%
CA: 87.6%
Graduating class
31,163
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #641 of 720 CA towns →
Districts
The district serving Los Angeles
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 1,086 schools in Los Angeles
Showing 1–30 of 1,086 schools
Porter Ranch CommunityElementary · Grades K–8 · 1,312 students
PublicHarry Bridges SpanElementary · Grades K–8 · 1,171 students
PublicKester Avenue ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 886 students
PublicCarpenter Community CharterElementary · Grades K–5 · 863 students
CharterWISH CommunityElementary · Grades K–8 · 860 students
ACharterMontague Charter AcademyElementary · Grades K–5 · 852 students
CharterSylmar Leadership AcademyElementary · Grades K–8 · 850 students
PublicPacoima Charter ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 831 students
CharterSouth Park ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 825 students
PublicUnion Avenue ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 809 students
PublicOne Hundred Seventh Street ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 804 students
PublicColfax Charter ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 774 students
CharterNinety-Third Street ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 772 students
PublicKittridge Street ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 768 students
PublicEagle Rock ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 755 students
PublicWelby Way Charter Elem Sch And Gifted-High Ability MagnetElementary · Grades K–5 · 755 students
CharterSeventy-Fifth Street ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 752 students
PublicFenton Avenue CharterElementary · Grades K–5 · 746 students
CharterCamino Nuevo Elementary #3Elementary · Grades K–8 · 743 students
C-CharterAcceleratedElementary · Grades K–8 · 729 students
CharterVintage Math/Science/Technology MagnetElementary · Grades K–5 · 725 students
PublicCHIME Institute's Schwarzenegger CommunityElementary · Grades K–8 · 724 students
B+CharterCitizens of the World Charter School Silver LakeElementary · Grades K–8 · 718 students
D-CharterThird Street ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 717 students
PublicCamino Nuevo Charter Academy #2Elementary · Grades K–8 · 711 students
B-CharterHart Street ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 699 students
PublicSanta Monica Boulevard Community CharterElementary · Grades K–6 · 697 students
CharterTaper Avenue ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 672 students
PublicWestwood Charter ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 670 students
CharterDr. Owen Lloyd Knox ElementaryElementary · Grades K–6 · 669 students
PublicSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.