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Animo Leadership High

· Los Angeles County · Lennox · Public

Public Los Angeles County 🏛 Lennox → CDS 1964709…
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🎯Top 10% Attendance (lowest chronic absenteeism) in Los Angeles

🧭 A parent's read

  • 8 in 10 graduates leave eligible for UC and CSU. 84% finish the A-G courses California's universities require before a student can even apply — most California schools manage about 6 in 10.
  • Families don't leave. 97% of students who start the year here finish it here — top-tier retention statewide. Kids stay; that tells you something no test score does.
  • About 2 in 3 students read and write at grade level. On the state's own 11th-grade test, 66% met or exceeded the college-readiness bar — well above the state as a whole (statewide: 54%).

Composed from this page's data — every claim is backed by a number in the sections below.

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How Animo Leadership High compares for families

What families should know about Animo Leadership High.

  • Locally🎯 Top 10% in Los Angeles County on Attendance (lowest chronic absenteeism).
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Lennox Mathematics, Science And Technology Academy, Animo Inglewood Charter Hs, Family First Charter and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SBAC academic outcomes — grade 11, 2025

Share of grade-11 students meeting or exceeding the California standard on Smarter Balanced ELA and Math. This is the academic-readiness signal that pairs with UC Reach (post-grad outcomes), stability (retention), and absenteeism (engagement). Note: statewide median Math is only ~20% — a school at 20% isn't an outlier; one at 45%+ genuinely is.

About 2 in 3 students read and write at grade level — above the state norm.
About 1 in 4 students do math at grade level — about the state norm.
ELA — met or exceeded
n = 152
66.5%
incl. 28.3% exceeded
+8.2 pts above Los Angeles County median (58.2%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 152
25.0%
incl. 7.2% exceeded
On the Los Angeles County median (25.0%) · CA median 21.1% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 53.6%

Source: California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) Smarter Balanced research files. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥30 tested students.

Student composition — 2025-26

HS grades 9–12 racial/ethnic composition and program subgroups, from CDE Census Day Enrollment. Two-year shift shown when ≥1 pt — surfaces how the community served has changed since 2023-24.

Race / ethnicity

Hispanic / Latino 98%
Black / African Am. 1%

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 93%
Socioeconomically disadv. 11%
English learners 10% -2.7

Source: California Department of Education, Census Day Enrollment 2025-26 (HS grades 9–12). Δ shown when shift is ≥1 pt since 2023-24. Categories below 0.5% omitted.

Chronic absenteeism — 2024-25

Share of students missing 10% or more of expected attendance — the leading indicator that often precedes the demand decline shown above. Families disengaging tend to raise absenteeism first, then formally leave. Basis: grades 9–12.

Kids show up: 11% are chronically absent versus about 23% statewide — engagement most schools would envy.
Chronic absent
11.0%
70 of 634 students

Absenteeism is up 4.1 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Los Angeles County median
25.1% · school is better than 90% of 382 HS
Statewide median
22.9%
Chronic absenteeism by year (raw %)

Source: California Department of Education, Chronic Absenteeism 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 eligible students. CDE didn't publish a usable 2019-20 file (COVID).

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)
634 (2018)630 (2026)
-0.6%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
134 (2018)151 (2026)
+12.7%

If this trend holds (-0.1%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~629 -1 $0
3 yr (2029) ~628 -2 $0
5 yr (2031) ~626 -4 $0

Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423/ADA). Edit the figure to match your school.

How does Animo Leadership High really compare on getting kids to college?

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Your similar-school group includes

Lennox Mathematics, Science And Technology Academy · Animo Inglewood Charter Hs · Family First Charter · Hawthorne Math And Science Academy · Animo South Los Angeles Charter · George Washington Preparatory · +4 more

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Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25

Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the Los Angeles County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Families don't leave: 97% of students who start the year finish it here — top-tier retention statewide.
Healthy
Best in class — winning on demand and retention.

Animo Leadership High outperformed Los Angeles County on enrollment (school +12.7% vs. county -8.2%) AND maintains 97.0% stability. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.

+12.7%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
-8.2%  Los Angeles County baseline
+20.9pp  gap vs. county
97.0%  retention (county median 87.3%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
97.0%
620 of 639 students

19 of 639 students who enrolled at Animo Leadership High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (3.0% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Los Angeles County median
87.3% · school is in the 96th percentile of 388 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 97th percentile of 1,689 HS

Stability by student group

Hispanic / Latino (626) 97.1%
Socio. disadvantaged (599) 97.3%
English learners (107) 92.5%
Students w/ disabilities (73) 91.8%

Nearest peer high schools

Lennox Mathematics, Science And Technology Academy 99.2% Animo Inglewood Charter Hs 96.8% Family First Charter 17.6% Hawthorne Math And Science Academy 94.6% Animo South Los Angeles Charter 86.6%

Source: California Department of Education, Stability Rate 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 cumulative enrollees so by-design-high-churn continuation schools don't dominate the bottom of the distribution. Cumulative enrollment counts every student on the rolls during the year, so it can exceed peak-day enrollment.

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