Canoga Park Senior High

Located at 6850 Topanga Canyon Blvd., in Canoga Park, California, Canoga Park Senior High is a large senior high that instructs 1,389 students (grades 9 through 12), run under Los Angeles Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 66% above the state mean of about 838.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Canoga Park Senior High is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Canoga Park Senior High lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%). The remainder reads as 6% White, 3% Asian, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Canoga Park Senior High shows 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.5:1. The state averages about 18.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 92% of students at Canoga Park Senior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Canoga Park Senior High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 24.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.9%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Canoga Park Senior High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Owensmouth Continuation, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Canoga Park Senior High. On composite proficiency, Canoga Park Senior High comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 26.1%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Canoga Park Senior High has changed only slightly, going from 1,415 students in 2018 to 1,389 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.1:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.