Humanities and Arts (HARTS) Academy of Los Angeles

Humanities and Arts (HARTS) Academy of Los Angeles is a rural-scale senior high in Harbor City, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. The school instructs 296 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 65% smaller than the state mean of about 838.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Humanities and Arts (HARTS) Academy of Los Angeles is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Humanities and Arts (HARTS) Academy of Los Angeles logs that 64% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 20% Black, 6% White, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Humanities and Arts (HARTS) Academy of Los Angeles sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.4%; this one delivers 43.1%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 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), Humanities and Arts (HARTS) Academy of Los Angeles is one campus in the mix.

Nathaniel Narbonne Senior High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Humanities and Arts (HARTS) Academy of Los Angeles comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.2%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Humanities and Arts (HARTS) Academy of Los Angeles has shrank 39%, going from 489 students in 2018 to 296 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 58% to 64% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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