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Black student results in Los Angeles Unified

Across 139 schools in Los Angeles Unified, 27.4% of Black students meet standard met or exceeded. That is 3 points above the California average for Black students.

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36.2%
All students
27.4%
Black
35.1%
Hispanic
65.9%
White
82.1%
Asian

Average across the 139 schools in Los Angeles Unified with reportable results, giving each school equal weight regardless of size. A group is omitted from a school when too few students were tested to report safely.

The distance inside one district

Among the 125 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, One Hundred Fifty-Sixth Street Elementary reports 61.1% of Black students meeting the standard. Lovelia P. Flournoy Elementary, in the same district, reports 6.4%. That is a 54.7-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Los Angeles Unified

Ranked by the share of Black students meeting standard met or exceeded. Every group is shown alongside, because a school that serves one group well and another poorly is telling you something too.

SchoolAllBlackHispanicWhiteAsian
One Hundred Fifty-Sixth Street Elementary 65.8% 61.1% 65.7%
Oliver Wendell Holmes Middle 64.5% 60.7% 60.7% 70.4% 82.1%
Robert Frost Middle 68% 58.5% 64.7% 68.7% 80.9%
Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle 63.8% 57.5% 56.8% 72% 94.5%
Open Charter Magnet MagnetCharter 67.7% 56% 65.2% 84.4%
Lomita Math/Science/Technology Magnet MagnetAlt 63.5% 55.6% 59.5% 76.7%
Cowan Avenue Elementary 57.4% 54.5%
Carthay Elementary Of Environmental Studies Magnet Magnet 53.4% 52.3% 43.7% 88.5%
Girls Academic Leadership Academy, Dr. Michelle Ki 76.3% 52.2% 68.9% 88% 85.4%
Alfred B. Nobel Charter Middle Charter 69.9% 51.8% 62.2% 75% 84.8%
Dr. Theodore T. Alexander Jr. Science Center Charter 43% 50% 40.9%
John Burroughs Middle 55.8% 49.8% 48.6% 67.2% 77.6%
Amestoy Elementary 47.3% 47% 46.3%
Carson Street Elementary 55% 46.2% 51.4%
One Hundred Eighty-Sixth Street Elementary 43.1% 45.7% 40.7%
Stephen M. White Middle 43.8% 45.7% 38.1% 50% 63.6%
Fifty-Fourth Street Elementary 46.3% 45.6% 59.1%
Virgil Middle 42.4% 45.5% 36.8% 71.3%
Gaspar De Portola Charter Middle Charter 64.3% 45.1% 43.5% 74% 92.8%
George Ellery Hale Charter Academy Charter 58.9% 44.9% 43.5% 64.4% 83.6%
Louis Armstrong Middle Charter 47% 43.7% 33.6% 58.9% 76.7%
Caroldale Learning Community 48.2% 42.4% 35.4%
Annalee Avenue Elementary 43% 41.6%
Tom Bradley Global Awareness Magnet MagnetAlt 41.3% 39.8%
Baldwin Hills Elementary 39% 39.7%
Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies MagnetAlt 60.3% 39.5% 37.4% 83.2% 84%
Ernest Lawrence Middle 44.2% 39.4% 31.3% 53.6% 80%
Leapwood Avenue Elementary 37.2% 39.3%
Thomas Starr King Middle School Film and Media Mag MagnetAlt 50% 38.8% 38.4% 67% 78.3%
Walter Reed Middle 60.8% 38.7% 40.7% 74.8% 90.2%
Brentwood Science MagnetAlt 46.6% 38.1% 45.5%
Ambler Avenue Elementary 37.1% 37.7% 36.2%
Patrick Henry Middle 45.6% 37.5% 42.6% 54.1% 64.8%
President Avenue Elementary 40.3% 37.5% 37.4%
Mark Twain Middle 52.4% 37.4% 35.4% 75.9% 92.8%
One Hundred Twelfth Street Elementary 32.7% 37.2% 30.5%
Palms Middle 49.4% 36.8% 39% 76.9% 84.5%
Paul Revere Charter Middle Charter 69.4% 36.7% 48.6% 81.7% 84.4%
Emerson Community Charter Charter 52.2% 36.4% 33.9% 73.8% 86.4%
Ritter Elementary 44% 36.4% 47.3%
Katherine Johnson STEM Academy 42.3% 35.6% 37%
Leadership & Public Service Virtual Academy AltVirtual 37% 35.6% 35%
Seventy-Fourth Street Elementary 38.3% 35.5% 41.1%
Broadacres Avenue Elementary Visual & Performing A 34.8% 35.2% 54.5%
Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary 44.9% 35% 47.6%
Figueroa Street Elementary 47.1% 34.6% 49.2%
Crescent Heights Boulevard Elementary MagnetAlt 35.2% 34.4% 31%
Century Park Elementary 36.9% 33.9% 40.2%
Meyler Street Elementary 32.4% 33.3% 32.6%
Virtual Academy of International Studies/Humanitie AltVirtual 33.6% 33.3% 31.5%
Cimarron Avenue Elementary 33.2% 33.1%
Virtual Academy STEAM AltVirtual 37.4% 32.4% 35.5% 41.7%
Alexander Fleming Middle 41.6% 32.1% 40.2% 48.6%
John H. Liechty Middle 20.8% 31.8% 20.9%
Andrew Carnegie Middle 39.6% 30.4% 36.6%
Birdielee V. Bright Elementary 36% 30.2% 37.2%
Daniel Webster Middle 32.1% 29.3% 30.9% 28%
Virtual Academy of Business & Entrepreneurship AltVirtual 29.7% 29.3% 29.2%
Wilmington Middle Science, Technology, Engineering MagnetAlt 35.7% 29.2% 35.9%
One Hundred Ninth Street Elementary 35.7% 28.6% 40%
Westminster Avenue Elementary Magnet 53.4% 28.6% 44.4% 86.2%
Purche Avenue Elementary 28.6% 27.9% 30.7%
Westside Global Awareness Magnet MagnetAlt 34.6% 27.9% 38.6%
Raymond Avenue Elementary 37% 27.6% 40.1%
Virtual Academy of the Arts & Entertainment AltVirtual 33.8% 27.5% 30.9%
Computer Science Virtual Academy AltVirtual 37.6% 27.3% 31.5% 52.8%
Woodland Hills Academy 29.1% 27.1% 24.8% 39.5%
One Hundred Fifty-Third Street 35.3% 26.7% 36.1%
Glenn Hammond Curtiss Middle 30.6% 26.5% 35.5%
Marina del Rey Middle 26.7% 26.4% 25.2%
Seventy-Fifth Street Elementary 35.9% 26.4% 38.3%
Joseph Le Conte Middle 22.2% 25.9% 20.5% 37%
Hubert Howe Bancroft Middle 31.9% 25.5% 29.2% 51%
Loyola Village Fine And Performing Arts Magnet Magnet 26.7% 24.6%
One Hundred Twenty-Second Street Elementary 48% 24.4% 52.7%
One Hundred Thirty-Fifth Street Elementary 35.2% 24.3% 35%
Coliseum Street Elementary 26.2% 23.1% 29.7%
Dr. Owen Lloyd Knox Elementary 35% 22.9% 37.6%
Foshay Learning Center 30.3% 22.8% 32%
Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte Elementary 20.2% 22.7% 21.8%
Windsor Hills Math Science MagnetAlt 22.4% 22.5%
Richard Henry Dana Middle 31.3% 22.3% 27.7% 59.4%
Normont Elementary 33.5% 21.9% 33.1%
Woodcrest Elementary 32.6% 21.1% 37%
Audubon Middle 22.3% 20.9% 24.2%
Forty-Second Street Elementary 27.1% 20.8% 40.7%
Horace Mann UCLA Community 19.8% 20.7% 20.9%
Robert E. Peary Middle 26.6% 20.7% 27.1% 84.6%
West Athens Elementary 22.9% 20% 25.1%
One Hundred Eighteenth Street 29.6% 19.6% 33%
La Salle Avenue Elementary 28.7% 19.5% 38%
Hillcrest Drive Elementary 22.3% 19.2% 24%
Sixty-Sixth Street Elementary 42.4% 19.2% 44.1%
Fifty-Second Street Elementary 19.6% 18.3% 20%
YES Academy 20.2% 18.1% 20.6%
Francisco Sepulveda Middle 25.1% 17.9% 24.5%
Grape Street Elementary 31% 17.9% 35.7%
Ninety-Fifth Street Elementary 32.6% 17.8% 37.5%
One Hundred Sixteenth Street Elementary 29.9% 17.4% 31.7%
Los Angeles Academy Middle 25.9% 16.8% 26.7%
Lenicia B. Weemes Elementary 28.1% 16.7% 31%
Russell Elementary 35.1% 16.7% 37.1%
Orville Wright Engineering and Design Magnet MagnetAlt 24.7% 16.6% 33%
Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary 31.4% 16.2% 33.6%
Mary McLeod Bethune Middle 21.6% 15.8% 22.4%
Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary 21.9% 15.6% 23.8%
Angeles Mesa Elementary 25.5% 15.4% 27.9%
Playa Vista Elementary 67.8% 15.4% 85.7%
Ninety-Third Street Elementary 32.2% 14.7% 35.9%
Johnnie Cochran, Jr., Middle 16.8% 14.3% 17.2%
Manchester Avenue Elementary 28.5% 14.2% 32.8%
Charles Drew Middle 18% 13.9% 18.9%
Avalon Gardens Elementary 21.4% 13.6% 32.6%
Barton Hill Elementary 28.6% 13.6% 31.3%
Eshelman Avenue Elementary 48.6% 13.6% 49.8%
Loren Miller Elementary 28% 12.9% 31.6%
Samuel Gompers Middle 19.5% 12.7% 23.4%
Charles W. Barrett Elementary 25.7% 12.6% 29.1%
One Hundred Seventh Street Elementary 19.4% 12.6% 21.7%
George Washington Carver Middle 23.6% 12.3% 24.4%
Thomas A. Edison Middle 26.1% 11.6% 26.6%
Gerald A. Lawson Academy of the Arts, Mathematics 20.7% 11.5% 22.3%
Western Avenue Technology Magnet MagnetAlt 25.8% 11.1% 26.3%
Edwin Markham Middle 15.6% 10.7% 17.4%
South Park Elementary 23.5% 10.2% 25.9%
Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary 22.7% 9.9% 25.6%
John Adams Middle 39.1% 9.1% 39.6%
McKinley Avenue Elementary 18.9% 8.6% 20.6%
Manhattan Place Elementary 9.8% 8.5% 9.8%
Barack Obama Global Preparation Academy 16.7% 8.4% 18.9%
Bret Harte Preparatory Middle 15.3% 8.4% 18%
Budlong Avenue Elementary 24.9% 7.8% 29.1%
Ninety-Second Street Elementary 38.5% 7.7% 40.6%
Normandie Avenue Elementary 22.4% 7.7% 24.1%
John Muir Middle 19.9% 6.8% 22.7%
Lovelia P. Flournoy Elementary 13.5% 6.4% 15.1%
Gil Garcetti Learning Academy 38.7% 4.3% 41.1%
Boys Academic Leadership Academy 21.7% 4.2%
Gratts Learning Academy for Young Scholars (GLAYS) 25.8% 0% 28.1%

Flags show magnet, charter, alternative and virtual schools. Some campuses — early college and specialized academies among them — also admit by application, and this page cannot yet identify all of them. Check with the district before assuming a school is open to your address.

How to read this. California suppresses results for groups with too few students tested, and reports by grade rather than by school, so many schools fall below the threshold — 1,331 of California's schools have reportable Black student results, across 24 counties. Coverage is grades 3–8; high schools are not included. Because every state sets its own proficiency standard, California figures should not be compared against another state's.

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