Early College Academy-LA Trade Tech College

Early College Academy-LA Trade Tech College, a micro-enrollment senior high in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified, enrolls 272 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 68% smaller than typical.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Early College Academy-LA Trade Tech College is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Early College Academy-LA Trade Tech College logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%). Beyond that, the school shows 4% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Early College Academy-LA Trade Tech College has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Early College Academy-LA Trade Tech College higher than the state norm the norm. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Early College Academy-LA Trade Tech College performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.6%, the actual is 36.6%, a residual of +13.0 points.

In the area at large, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Early College Academy-LA Trade Tech College is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Orthopaedic Hospital, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Early College Academy-LA Trade Tech College comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 43.8%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 45%: 187 students in 2018 compared to 272 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 9% to 4% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 23.4:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 in 2025.

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