Esteban Torres East LA Performing Arts Magnet
Los Angeles · CA · Los Angeles Unified · Public
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Alfonso B. Perez Special Education Center → Alliance Susan and Eric Smidt Technology High → Vail High (Continuation) → Matrix for Success Academy → Ednovate - East College Prep → E. Los Angeles Renaiss Acad at Esteban E. Torres High #2 → Applied Technology Center → Aspire Pacific Academy →📋 At a glance
- 📚 9 AP courses offered — Elite
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🔢 1 calculus classes · 2 physics · 3 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 70th percentile nationally
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 92% (60th percentile nationally)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts graduation data, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Esteban Torres East LA Performing Arts Magnet compares for families
Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor at the 70th percentile nationally with 9 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: Alfonso B. Perez Special Education Center, Alliance Susan and Eric Smidt Technology High, Vail High (Continuation) 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
70th 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 · 2020-21Source: 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?
60th percentile nationally
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
High-poverty school
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.
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.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -13.8%/year, projecting from 2024's 243 students:
≈ 128 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $24,124 per student in district revenue, the 128 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $3,087,872/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alfonso B. Perez Special Education Center Los Angeles |
Public | 0.5 | 243 | +1.2% |
| Alliance Susan and Eric Smidt Technology High Los Angeles |
Public · charter | 3.3 | 239 | -35.2% |
| Vail High (Continuation) Montebello |
Public | 4.3 | 219 | +28.8% |
| Matrix for Success Academy Los Angeles |
Public · charter | 5.1 | 259 | +38.5% |
| Ednovate - East College Prep Los Angeles |
Public · charter | 2.4 | 314 | -17.2% |
| E. Los Angeles Renaiss Acad at Esteban E. Torres High #2 Los Angeles |
Public | 0.0 | 355 | -15.1% |
| Applied Technology Center Montebello |
Public | 4.2 | 295 | -34.6% |
| Aspire Pacific Academy Huntington Park |
Public · charter | 4.6 | 296 | -8.9% |