Dr. Maya Angelou Community High

Set in Los Angeles, California, Dr. Maya Angelou Community High is a mid-tier high school, part of Los Angeles Unified. It educates 971 students across grades 9 through 12.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Dr. Maya Angelou Community High is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Dr. Maya Angelou Community High logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%). Other groups include 7% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Dr. Maya Angelou Community High tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 97% of students at Dr. Maya Angelou Community High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Dr. Maya Angelou Community High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.6%, the actual is 20.1%, a residual of -1.5 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) reports that median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Dr. Maya Angelou Community High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Synergy Quantum Academy, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Dr. Maya Angelou Community High comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 22.4%.

Dr. Maya Angelou Community High operates from a high-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. Dr. Maya Angelou Community High's enrollment has shrank 6% since 2018, when it stood at 1,035 (now 971). Class-load math has fell: from 22.1:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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