This database was last updated in October 2018, and its latest data is from the 2015-16 school year. Researchers can find more recent data at the U.S. Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection site.
Miseducation » California
Los Angeles Unified School District
333 S. Beaudry Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90017
540K Students | 24K Teachers | 785 Schools | Under Desegregation Order
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District Composition
Opportunity
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AP Course Composition
Gifted & Talented Composition
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Students
90% Nonwhite Students
79% Students Who Get Free/Reduced-Price Lunch
77% High School Graduation Rate
22% High School Students Taking at Least One AP Course
31.7K students
11% Students in a Gifted & Talented Program
59.6K students
19% Students Taking the SAT or ACT
28K students
8% Students Enrolled in Physics
11.9K students
16% Students Enrolled in Advanced Math
23K students
22% Students Enrolled in in Geometry
31.7K students
36% Students Enrolled in Biology
51.4K students
23% Students Enrolled in Chemistry
33.5K students
3% Students Enrolled in Calculus
5,290 students
< 1% Students Enrolled in 8th-Grade Algebra
4,742 students
Teachers & Resources
22.5 Students for Every Teacher
11% Inexperienced Teachers
0% Chronically Absent Teachers
(Missed more than 10 days in a 180-day school year)
10 Average Number of AP Courses per School
6.1 Social Workers, Psychologists & Counselors per 1000 students
105 Schools With Credit Recovery Programs
89 Schools With Dual Enrollment Programs
750 Schools With Gifted & Talented Programs
3 Schools With International Baccalaureates
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Discipline
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Out-of-School Suspension Composition
Expulsion Composition
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Students
3,818 Total Out-of-School Suspended Students
< 1% of all students in this district
1,119 Total In-School Suspended Students
< 1% of all students in this district
136 Total Expelled Students
< 1% of all students in this district
Outcomes & Resources
7 Average Days Missed to Out-of-School Suspension, per School
1.7Average Number of Days of an Out-of-School Suspension
0 Total Arrests
8416 Total Referrals to Law Enforcement
10 Average Referrals to Law Enforcement, per School
0 Average Transfers to Alternative Schools, per School
0.3 Security Guards or Law Enforcement Officers per 1000 students
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Civil Rights Coordinators
All Schools
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Sources & Notes
Sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, Stanford University's Center for Education Policy Analysis, EDFacts, U.S. Department of Education’s Common Core of Data. Maps courtesy of Mapbox Community. Read our methodology →
Notes: The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights occasionally updates the underlying dataset. ProPublica may update the interactive’s data in response.
Disparity scores are not available if there are too few students in a specific racial group to make a statistically significant calculation. They are also not available if data about a particular racial group was not reported. Some schools or districts reported an overcount of students in a disparity category (such as suspensions or AP courses) when compared with the total enrollment of that particular student group. In such cases, we also omit the disparity score.
Due to rounding, demographic breakdowns in composition charts may add up to more than 100 percent.
The racial categories we show data for are: Black, Hispanic, White, Asian/Pacific Islander or Native Hawaiian, Two or More Races, and Native American or Alaska Native. In some cases, we abbreviate the last three of these racial groups to Asian, Two+ Races, and Native Am.
Due to a technical issue with the Office for Civil Rights’ collection of data on sworn law enforcement officers in schools, the data for security staff may be an undercount.
As with any self-reported data, there may be errors in the federal Civil Rights Data Collection. Though districts are required to ensure the accuracy of their data, some may still report incorrect figures. Additionally, for some variables, the CRDC rounds the number of students for privacy reasons. In these cases, groups of students may represent a slight undercount or overcount.
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Data specific to high school testing or high school level courses (including geometry, biology, calculus, AP enrollment, SAT testing rates, etc.) is calculated out of total high school enrollment, while data for other classes (such as eighth-grade algebra) is calculated out of total student enrollment. Read more about our data in our methodology →