Los Angeles Leadership Academy
Los Angeles · CA · Los Angeles Leadership Academy District · Public charter · K-12 combined
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Central Juvenile Hall → Academia Avance Charter → Renaissance Arts Academy → Collegiate Charter High School of Los Angeles → Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise → Alliance Tennenbaum Family Technology High → Soc Just Leadership Acad at Esteban E. Torres High #5 → PUC CALS Middle School and Early College High →📋 At a glance
- 📚 9 AP courses offered — Elite
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🔢 2 calculus classes · 3 physics · 3 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 76th percentile nationally
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 82% (Bottom 29% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Los Angeles Leadership Academy compares for families
Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor in the top 24% 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: Central Juvenile Hall, Academia Avance Charter, Renaissance Arts Academy 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
76th 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?
Bottom 29% 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.
🏛️ 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 -8.5%/year, projecting from 2024's 322 students:
≈ 115 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 $19,296 per student in district revenue, the 115 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $2,219,040/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.
Most similar nearby high schools
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Juvenile Hall Los Angeles |
Public | 1.3 | 137 | +61.2% |
| Academia Avance Charter Highland Park |
Public · charter | 1.8 | 139 | -32.5% |
| Renaissance Arts Academy Los Angeles |
Public · charter | 2.5 | 144 | -11.7% |
| Collegiate Charter High School of Los Angeles Los Angeles |
Public · charter | 4.0 | 141 | -31.6% |
| Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise Los Angeles |
Public · charter | 3.4 | 129 | -32.1% |
| Alliance Tennenbaum Family Technology High Los Angeles |
Public · charter | 2.1 | 174 | -27.2% |
| Soc Just Leadership Acad at Esteban E. Torres High #5 Los Angeles |
Public | 3.5 | 121 | -47.4% |
| PUC CALS Middle School and Early College High Los Angeles |
Public · charter | 4.0 | 177 | -37.0% |