Burbank Unified Independent Learning Academy (BUILA)
Burbank · CA · Burbank Unified · Public
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Berenece Carlson Home Hospital → Renaissance Arts Academy → Charles Leroy Lowman Special Ed and Career Transition Center → Monterey High (Continuation) → Academia Avance Charter → Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise → Alliance Tennenbaum Family Technology High → PUC CALS Middle School and Early College High →📋 At a glance
- 📚 10 AP courses offered — Elite
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🔢 2 calculus classes · 1 physics · 2 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 78th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 7% by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 84% (Bottom 33% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts graduation data, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Burbank Unified Independent Learning Academy (BUILA) compares for families
Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor in the top 22% nationally with 10 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Berenece Carlson Home Hospital, Renaissance Arts Academy, Charles Leroy Lowman Special Ed and Career Transition Center and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth
78th percentile nationally
✅ Gifted/talented program
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 7% by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 33% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Mixed-income school
Below Title I eligibility threshold (FRPL < 35%)
25-34% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Below the federal Title I threshold but a meaningful share of the population is income-eligible for free lunch.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -13.2%/year, projecting from 2024's 140 students:
A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
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The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berenece Carlson Home Hospital North Hollywood |
Public | 3.4 | 152 | -39.7% |
| Renaissance Arts Academy Los Angeles |
Public · charter | 7.5 | 144 | -11.7% |
| Charles Leroy Lowman Special Ed and Career Transition Center North Hollywood |
Public | 4.8 | 167 | +41.5% |
| Monterey High (Continuation) Burbank |
Public | 0.0 | 91 | -26.0% |
| Academia Avance Charter Highland Park |
Public · charter | 9.4 | 139 | -32.5% |
| Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise Los Angeles |
Public · charter | 9.5 | 129 | -32.1% |
| Alliance Tennenbaum Family Technology High Los Angeles |
Public · charter | 7.9 | 174 | -27.2% |
| PUC CALS Middle School and Early College High Los Angeles |
Public · charter | 8.9 | 177 | -37.0% |