Boys Academic Leadership Academy

Boys Academic Leadership Academy, a rural-scale secondary school in Los Angeles, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified, teaches 69 students, covering grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 92% leaner than the state mean of about 838.

Across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students total), Boys Academic Leadership Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Boys Academic Leadership Academy logs that 75% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school lists 22% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 8% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Boys Academic Leadership Academy has 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.5:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, Boys Academic Leadership Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.0%, the actual is 15.6%, a residual of -10.4 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), Boys Academic Leadership Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Ellington (Duke) High (Continuation), around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Boys Academic Leadership Academy. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Boys Academic Leadership Academy at 3rd of 4; the average score across the group is 37.0%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Boys Academic Leadership Academy has contracted 24%, going from 91 students in 2018 to 69 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 in 2025.

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