Taft Charter High

Taft Charter High is a 9-12 campus of big scale in Woodland Hills, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified, serveing 2,221 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Taft Charter High sits 165% above that benchmark.

Taft Charter High is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that hosts 406,887 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Taft Charter High records that 40% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 39% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 6% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 31% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 102 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 57% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Taft Charter High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.8%, the actual is 50.4%, a residual of +4.6 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that 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 Taft Charter High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Henry David Thoreau Continuation, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Taft Charter High comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 44.4%.

The campus sits in an urban setting. Taft Charter High is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Taft Charter High has edged down 6%, going from 2,364 students in 2018 to 2,221 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.3:1 in 2018 to 21.9:1 today.

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