Barack Obama Global Preparation Academy

Located at 1700 West 46th St., in Los Angeles, California, Barack Obama Global Preparation Academy is an one-room-style four-year high school that instructs 293 students (grades 6 through 12), run under Los Angeles Unified. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 65% below typical.

Barack Obama Global Preparation Academy is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that serves 406,887 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Barack Obama Global Preparation Academy lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 21% Black, 3% multiracial, 2% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Barack Obama Global Preparation Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Barack Obama Global Preparation Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.8%, the actual is 12.1%, a residual of -10.6 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Barack Obama Global Preparation Academy is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Russell Westbrook Why Not? Middle, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Barack Obama Global Preparation Academy at 4th of 4; the average score across the group is 19.7%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 26%: 398 students in 2018 compared to 293 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 27% to 21% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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