University Pathways Public Service Academy

University Pathways Public Service Academy is a high school of micro-enrollment scale in Los Angeles, California, part of Los Angeles Unified, works with 121 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 86% smaller than the state mean of about 838.

Los Angeles Unified comprises 784 schools with combined enrollment of 406,887 students; University Pathways Public Service Academy is among them.

In terms of who attends, University Pathways Public Service Academy reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (83%). Other groups include 15% Black, 2% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, University Pathways Public Service Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 21.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 27.8%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which University Pathways Public Service Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Charles Drew Middle, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), University Pathways Public Service Academy ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 25.8%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

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