Enrollment & Outcomes Scorecard
Manual Arts Senior High School
Public · Los Angeles · Los Angeles County · 902 students · Class of 2025
UC Reach Score · Class of 2025
27
Around the CA median
near the state median
Higher than 69% of California high schools
+8.2 pp above peer median (19)
· Ranked #1 of 4 similar schools
5-year UC Reach Score
2021 · 17
2025 · 27
-6%
Senior-class enrollment (2018–2026)
+2.1 pp
vs. Los Angeles County baseline (-8%)
~855
5-yr projected enrollment (47 fewer than today)
- ▸On UC Reach Score, Manual Arts Senior High School sits near the top of its similar-school group (ranked #1 of 4): 27 vs. a peer median of 19.
- ▸Manual Arts Senior High School's UC Reach Score has stepped down from a peak of 33 in 2019 to 27 in 2025 — a 6-point decline worth tracking.
- ▸Across the top-6 UC campuses, Manual Arts Senior High School is admitting at roughly +10 percentage points above what its average applicant GPA (3.703) alone would predict (30% actual vs. 20% expected). That's a meaningful signal — it can reflect UC's track record with this school's graduates, students presenting strongly in UC's holistic review (essays, EC's, context), or institutional familiarity helping at the margin. The data can't distinguish which, but the pattern itself is real and worth understanding.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 6% (230→216 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of +10%.
- ▸In business terms, this is market-share growth during a market contraction. Los Angeles County's senior population shrank 8% over the same window — Manual Arts Senior High School only shrank 6%. So Manual Arts Senior High School picked up about 2 percentage points of relative share — families chose it over the alternatives even as the overall pool got smaller. That's overperforming the market in a shrinking market.
- ▸At its recent rate (-1.8%/yr), enrollment projects to ~855 by 2029 — about 47 fewer students than today.
Most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | UC Reach Score | Enroll. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual Arts Senior High | Public | — | -33% |
| Dr Maya Angelou Community Hs | Public | 19 | +61% |
| Thirty-Second Street Usc Performing Arts | Public | — | -14% |
| Youthbuild Charter School Of California | Public | — | -60% |
| Los Angeles Senior High School | Public | 20 | +14% |
| Los Angeles Senior High | Public | — | +6% |
UC Reach = top-6 UC admits ÷ senior class. Sources: UCOP Admissions by Source School, CDE enrollment, IRS Form 990, NCES F-33. Reach — by Test Prep Gurus · Methodology
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