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What's the one class at Robert Fulton College Preparatory every student should take?
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Enrollment
1,229
High
DISTRICT 676 · STATE 838
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOS ANGELES UNIFIED·NCES 062271003029
Robert Fulton College Preparatory
7477 Kester Ave., Van Nuys, CA 91405 · (818) 947-2100 · Los Angeles County
GRADES 06–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,229 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 13% of California public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public high schools
Student : Teacher
19.5:1
63 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 18.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
1,176 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 192 | 16% |
| Grade 7 | 203 | 17% |
| Grade 8 | 231 | 19% |
| Grade 9 | 166 | 14% |
| Grade 10 | 147 | 12% |
| Grade 11 | 154 | 13% |
| Grade 12 | 136 | 11% |
Student demographics
23%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on published attendance-zone data from Los Angeles Unified. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
25.4%
CA avg 49.1% . +5.4pp since 2014
Math
12.9%
CA avg 37.7% . +3.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 5.1% | 20.3% | 21.8% | 52.9% |
| Math | 3.8% | 9.1% | 19.9% | 67.2% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.4% | 12.9% |
| 2023-24 | 27.5% | 12.1% |
| 2022-23 | 22.6% | 10.7% |
| 2021-22 | 24.6% | 9.5% |
| 2020-21 | 46.6% | 18.6% |
| 2018-19 | 28.0% | 10.9% |
| 2017-18 | 22.9% | 8.0% |
| 2016-17 | 26.4% | 9.9% |
| 2015-16 | 24.0% | 9.0% |
| 2014-15 | 20.0% | 9.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
20.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.5%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Robert Fulton College Preparatory
Robert Fulton College Preparatory's state test result (20.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Fulton College Preparatory this school | 1,229 | 95.7% | 20.0% |
| Edward R. Roybal Learning Center Los Angeles | 1,130 | 93.9% | 33.0% |
| Cathedral City High Cathedral City | 1,334 | 95.5% | 37.2% |
| Panorama High Panorama City | 1,316 | 97.6% | 28.1% |
| Richmond High Richmond | 1,280 | 96.8% | 20.5% |
| Rancho Mirage High Rancho Mirage | 1,401 | 95.2% | 36.3% |
Matched among California high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Robert Fulton College Preparatory ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #998 of 1,052 | #219 of 228 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.9% | #899 of 1,056 ▼ 43 | #198 of 229 ▼ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.4% | #1,020 of 1,056 ▼ 24 | #225 of 229 ▼ 10 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.0pp | #531 of 1,044 | #155 of 229 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,229 | #678 of 2,093 | #141 of 486 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.5:1 | #473 of 1,352 | #168 of 358 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.6% | #1,064 of 1,351 | #214 of 359 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.7% | #106 of 1,575 | #65 of 396 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.5% | #159 of 802 | #66 of 227 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,229
-47 (-4%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 1,377
Student : Teacher
19.5:1
was 20.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,229 | 63.1 | 19.5:1 | 96% (1,176) |
| 2023-24 | 1,258 | 66.6 | 18.9:1 | 93% (1,176) |
| 2022-23 | 1,244 | 61.3 | 20.3:1 | 96% (1,199) |
| 2020-21 | 1,276 | 63 | 20.3:1 | 97% (1,234) |
| 2017-18 | 1,566 | 62.3 | 25.1:1 | 94% (1,475) |
| 2015-16 | 1,769 | 73 | 24.2:1 | 91% (1,601) |
| 2010-11 | 2,192 | N/A | N/A | 38% (841) |
| 2000-01 | 2,158 | 94 | 23.0:1 | 82% (1,761) |
| 1990-91 | 1,377 | 59 | 23.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Robert Fulton College Preparatory.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (1,566 to 1,229); teachers up 1% (62.3 to 63.1).
About Robert Fulton College Preparatory
Located in Van Nuys, California, Robert Fulton College Preparatory is a medium-sized high school. It educates 1,229 students in grades 6 through 12. The typical figure for high schools in California is about 838 students.
Los Angeles Unified has a total of 784 schools and 406,887 students, Robert Fulton College Preparatory among them.
Most students at Robert Fulton College Preparatory are Hispanic: 88% of enrollment. Other groups make up 5% Asian, 4% White, and 3% Black. Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. The chance that two students picked at random at Robert Fulton College Preparatory belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 23%.
Robert Fulton College Preparatory operates with 63.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 19.5:1. That ratio is over the 18.2:1 average for high schools in California. Robert Fulton College Preparatory reports 96% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The 70% average for public schools in Los Angeles County is 26 points lower.
allk12 grades Robert Fulton College Preparatory a D. The grade compares the school only with California public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
A school with Robert Fulton College Preparatory's lunch-eligibility share in California is predicted to score 23.5%. Robert Fulton College Preparatory scores 20.0%, 3.4 points below that line.
Robert Fulton College Preparatory is located in Los Angeles County, where median household income is about $90,112, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Robert Fulton College Preparatory is one of 2,244 public schools in Los Angeles County, which together enroll about 1,265,907 students.
The school nearest to Robert Fulton College Preparatory is Lashon Academy, at a distance of about 0.1 miles. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, Robert Fulton College Preparatory is 5th among 5 schools close by.
For locale, NCES codes Robert Fulton College Preparatory as City: Large.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 1,229 was 4% lower than in 2020-21, when it was 1,276.
Threads on this page can be about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Los Angeles County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
9,808,667
Census ACS
Median income
$90,112
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
2,244
1,265,907 students
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Frequently asked questions
About Robert Fulton College PreparatoryHow many students attend Robert Fulton College Preparatory?
Robert Fulton College Preparatory enrolls approximately 1,229 students in grades 06-12.
What grades does Robert Fulton College Preparatory serve?
Robert Fulton College Preparatory serves grades 06-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Robert Fulton College Preparatory?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Robert Fulton College Preparatory is approximately 19.5:1 (63 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Robert Fulton College Preparatory?
At Robert Fulton College Preparatory, the student body is approximately 4% White, 88% Hispanic, 3% Black, 5% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Robert Fulton College Preparatory in?
Robert Fulton College Preparatory is part of Los Angeles Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.