Performing Arts Community at Diego Rivera Learning Complex

Performing Arts Community at Diego Rivera Learning Complex is a compact high school in Los Angeles, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified. The school educates 494 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Performing Arts Community at Diego Rivera Learning Complex sits 41% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Performing Arts Community at Diego Rivera Learning Complex is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Performing Arts Community at Diego Rivera Learning Complex logs that nearly all students (92%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 6% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Performing Arts Community at Diego Rivera Learning Complex performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.2%, the actual is 25.0%, a residual of +3.8 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household earnings sit near $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Performing Arts Community at Diego Rivera Learning Complex is one.

The closest other public school is Communication and Tech at Diego Rivera Lrng Complex, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Performing Arts Community at Diego Rivera Learning Complex. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Performing Arts Community at Diego Rivera Learning Complex at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 25.0%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Performing Arts Community at Diego Rivera Learning Complex has contracted 3%, going from 511 students in 2018 to 494 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 today.

On allk12, the feed for Performing Arts Community at Diego Rivera Learning Complex typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.