Visual and Performing Arts at Legacy High School Complex

Visual and Performing Arts at Legacy High School Complex operates as a close-knit four-year high school in South Gate, California, part of Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 411 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 51% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Visual and Performing Arts at Legacy High School Complex is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that educates 406,887 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Visual and Performing Arts at Legacy High School Complex logs that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Visual and Performing Arts at Legacy High School Complex lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Visual and Performing Arts at Legacy High School Complex performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.9%, the actual is 23.9%, a residual of -2.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Visual and Performing Arts at Legacy High School Complex is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: International Studies Lrng Center at Legacy High Sch Complex, around 0.0 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), Visual and Performing Arts at Legacy High School Complex ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 37.8%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Visual and Performing Arts at Legacy High School Complex's enrollment has fell 13% since 2018, when it stood at 475 (now 411). Class-load math has tightened: from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

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