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King/Drew Medical Magnet High

· Los Angeles County · Los Angeles Unified · Public

Public Los Angeles County 🏛 Los Angeles Unified → CDS 1964733…
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📘Top 25% ELA & Math · SBAC (CA) 📚AP rigor: 86th percentile nationally 📖20 AP courses 🎓99% 4-yr grad rate

📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • 📚 20 AP courses offered — Elite
  • ✅ Gifted & talented program
  • 🔢 4 calculus classes · 6 physics · 15 chemistry
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: 86th percentile nationally
  • 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 4% by test-taker volume
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 99% (Top 0.7% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How King/Drew Medical Magnet High compares for families

Standout academic depth by national standards.

  • StatewideAP rigor in the top 14% nationally with 20 AP courses.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Huntington Park High School, Gardena High School, Dominguez High and 2 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

86th percentile nationally

50th 90th ↑ this school
Less rigorMore rigorMost rigor
AP courses offered
20
Math ✓ · Science ✓
Students taking AP courses
426
≈31 per 100 students · uptake, not just offerings
Advanced math classes
14
4 calculus · 10 advanced
Lab science classes
21
6 physics · 15 chemistry
Other rigor signals
✅ 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 · 2020-21

Bottom 4% by test-taker volume

50th 90th
SAT/ACT test-takers
2
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test
Test-taking intensity
0.1
takers per 100 students in grades 9-12
Compared against
18,426
US high schools reporting SAT/ACT participation

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?

Top 0.7% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
99%
Range: 99–100%
4-year cohort size
322
Students in the 9th-grade entry class tracked over 4 years
Compared against
17,988
US high schools reporting 4-year ACGR

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

90.2%
FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).
0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

≥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.

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.

ELA — met or exceeded
n = 312
74.7%
incl. 34.0% exceeded
+16.7 pts above Los Angeles County median (58.0%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 312
39.4%
incl. 14.7% exceeded
+14.4 pts above 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

Black / African Am. 49% +3.3
Hispanic / Latino 45% -5.2
Not reported 4% +1.4
Two or more 1%
White 1%

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 91%
Socioeconomically disadv. 3% -1.0

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.

Chronic absent
20.6%
284 of 1,381 students

Absenteeism is up 13.3 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Los Angeles County median
25.2% · school is better than 62% of 381 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)
1,573 (2018)1,350 (2026)
-14.2%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
348 (2018)306 (2026)
-12.1%

If this trend holds (-2.4%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~1,318 -32 $0
3 yr (2029) ~1,257 -93 $0
5 yr (2031) ~1,199 -151 $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.

King/Drew Medical Magnet High — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is down 12% (348→306 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -4%.
  • At its recent rate (-1.9%/yr), enrollment projects to ~1275 by 2029 — about 75 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

1350 students (2026)
~1275 projected (2029)
at -1.9%/yr

That's about 75 fewer students. At per-student funding of $ per student, that's roughly $0 in annual state funding at risk.

Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423 per ADA) — adjust to your district's actual per-pupil figure. Projection extrapolates the recent annual rate — not a forecast of intent.

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Score Enroll. trend
King/Drew Medical Magnet High Public 1350 -12%
Peer-group median 17 -4%
Huntington Park High School Public 1383 24 -14%
Gardena High School Public 1270 14 +5%
Dominguez High Public 1502 19 -1%
South GATE High School Public 1619 16 -34%
Lynwood High School Public 1674 16 -19%
Marco Antonio Firebaugh Hs Public 1639 24 -1%
Dominguez Senior High School Public 1616 32 +0%
Alain Leroy Locke College Prep Public 988 15 -30%
Elizabeth Learning Center Public 1127 16 -8%
South East High School Public 1894 22 +0%

UC Reach Score = top-6 UC admits ÷ senior class (can exceed 100 when students are admitted to multiple campuses). Enrollment trend = first-to-latest grade-12 change on file. Similar schools matched on proximity, size, type. Methodology →

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.

Action needed
Strong inside, weak at the gate.

Families who enroll at King/Drew Medical Magnet High stay (93.1% stability — elite). But enrollment is dropping 1.5× the county rate (school -12.1% vs. county -8.2%). The audit question isn't why students leave — it's why fewer families are choosing to enroll in the first place.

-12.1%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
-8.2%  Los Angeles County baseline
-3.9pp  gap vs. county
93.1%  retention (county median 87.3%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
93.1%
1,295 of 1,391 students

96 of 1,391 students who enrolled at King/Drew Medical Magnet High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (6.9% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Los Angeles County median
87.3% · school is in the 79th percentile of 387 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 80th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (1,254) 93.1%
Hispanic / Latino (664) 94.3%
Black / African Am. (655) 92.1%
Students w/ disabilities (63) 87.3%
English learners (32) 87.5%

Nearest peer high schools

Huntington Park High School 85.9% Gardena High School 80.9% Dominguez High 86.1% South GATE High School 86.6% Lynwood High School 87.7%

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.

District financial profile — Los Angeles Unified (FY2020)

From 4 years of NCES F-33 filings (the federally-mandated district finance survey). Public schools don't have their own books — the district does. These figures show the financial scale, revenue dependence, instruction-vs-overhead mix, and long-term debt that shape what a school can sustain.

Total revenue
$11112.5M
+8.9% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$24,124
460,633 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 51.7%
Local: 29.8%
Federal: 18.5%
Instruction share
53.5%
of current spending · $10,061/pupil
Long-term debt
$11908.4M
+4.3% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($M)
Total expenditure by year ($M)

Source: NCES F-33 Annual Survey of School System Finances (Urban Institute Education Data API). Latest year currently published: FY2020. F-33 is a district-level federal filing — it reflects the Los Angeles Unified as a whole, not this individual school's books. Revenue mix shows where the district's dollars come from (state aid dominates in CA via LCFF). Instruction share is current expenditure on instruction ÷ total current expenditure (national benchmark ~60%). Long-term debt is end-of-year outstanding (mostly facilities bonds).

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