School for the Visual Arts and Humanities

As a tight-knit 9-12 campus in Los Angeles, California, School for the Visual Arts and Humanities teaches 512 students from grades 9 through 12, part of Los Angeles Unified. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 39% smaller than typical.

School for the Visual Arts and Humanities is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that caters to 406,887 students overall.

In terms of who attends, School for the Visual Arts and Humanities shows that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder is composed of 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, School for the Visual Arts and Humanities sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 22.9%; actual is 39.5%, +16.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which School for the Visual Arts and Humanities is one.

Ambassador-Global Leadership 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. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), School for the Visual Arts and Humanities ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 24.2%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. School for the Visual Arts and Humanities's enrollment has ticked up 22% since 2018, when it stood at 421 (now 512).

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