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Robert Louis Stevenson College and Career Preparatory
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CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 17 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 22% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Robert Louis Stevenson College and Career Preparatory
Robert Louis Stevenson College and Career Preparatory operates as a mid-tier 6-8 campus in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 792 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 20% bigger than the state mean of about 659.
Robert Louis Stevenson College and Career Preparatory is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that hosts 406,887 students overall.
Looking at the student body, Robert Louis Stevenson College and Career Preparatory reports that nearly all students (98%) are Hispanic. 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, Robert Louis Stevenson College and Career Preparatory has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Robert Louis Stevenson College and Career Preparatory tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 96% of students are eligible 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Robert Louis Stevenson College and Career Preparatory performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.2%, the actual is 27.2%, a residual of +5.0 points.
In the broader community, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household earnings sit near $90,112, 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), Robert Louis Stevenson College and Career Preparatory is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Collegiate Charter High School of Los Angeles, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.
Geographically, the school is in an urban area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Robert Louis Stevenson College and Career Preparatory has fell 36%, going from 1,230 students in 2018 to 792 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.0:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 in 2025.
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