Summary:
Manual Arts Senior High is a public high school located in Los Angeles, California, serving grades 9-12 with a total enrollment of 1,026 students. The school is part of the Los Angeles Unified School District, which is ranked 871 out of 1,568 districts in California and has a 2-star rating out of 5 from SchoolDigger.
Manual Arts Senior High has consistently ranked in the bottom half of California high schools, maintaining a 1-star rating out of 5 from SchoolDigger for most of the past decade. The school struggles across various student subgroups, with low rankings for female, male, Hispanic, and English Language Learner students. Academically, Manual Arts Senior High has significantly lower proficiency rates compared to the district and state in English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science assessments. For example, only 27.42% of 11th-grade students were proficient or better in English Language Arts, compared to 49.56% for the district and 55.73% for the state. The school's four-year graduation rate has ranged from 76.0% to 83.9%, which is lower than the state average, and its dropout rate has been high, ranging from 8.4% to 21.2% in recent years.
Interestingly, the nearby schools, such as Augustus Hawkins High, Dr. Maya Angelou Community High, and Girls Academic Leadership Academy, generally perform better than Manual Arts Senior High across various metrics, including test scores, graduation rates, and chronic absenteeism. This suggests that the challenges faced by Manual Arts Senior High are deeply rooted and not easily addressed by factors such as student-teacher ratio, which is relatively low at around 15.7 students per teacher.
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Detail:
Public 9-12
District:
Los Angeles Unified
SchoolDigger Rank:
1718th of 2,323 California High Schools
Per Pupil Expenditures: $12,871
Feeder schools for Manual Arts Senior High:
Student/teacher ratio: 16.0
Number of students: 1,039
Racial breakdown:
Hispanic:
85.0%
African American:
12.1%
White:
1.6%
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Two or more races:
0.8%
Asian:
0.3%
American Indian:
0.2%
Free/discounted lunch recipients: 94.5%
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