Alfonso B. Perez Special Education Center

Alfonso B. Perez Special Education Center operates as a tiny senior high in Los Angeles, California, overseen by Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 243 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 71% leaner than the state mean of about 838.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Alfonso B. Perez Special Education Center is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Alfonso B. Perez Special Education Center logs that nearly all students (94%) are Hispanic. The remainder reads as 4% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Alfonso B. Perez Special Education Center is one campus in the mix.

Brooklyn Avenue is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Alfonso B. Perez Special Education Center.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 15%: 286 students in 2018 compared to 243 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 89% to 94% across the same window.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.