West Adams Preparatory High

West Adams Preparatory High operates as a reasonably sized secondary school in Los Angeles, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 942 students spanning grades 9 through 12.

Across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students total), West Adams Preparatory High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, West Adams Preparatory High reports that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 5% Black, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, West Adams Preparatory High logs 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting West Adams Preparatory High tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, West Adams Preparatory High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.3%, the actual is 20.6%, a residual of -0.7 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), West Adams Preparatory High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Magnolia Avenue Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, West Adams Preparatory High comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 31.1%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 37%: 1,491 students in 2018 compared to 942 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for West Adams Preparatory High typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.