Los Angeles Unified
Los Angeles, CA · 784 schools · 426,268 students
Largest Schools
Schools ranked by enrollment. Proficiency data from EDFacts where available.
Frequently Asked Questions
Los Angeles Unified has 784 schools serving 426,268 students. The average proficiency rate across the district is 37%. The average graduation rate is 69%.
Los Angeles Unified operates 784 public schools, including Grover Cleveland Charter High, San Pedro Senior High, North Hollywood Senior High, Phineas Banning Senior High, Bell Senior High and others. The full school list is shown above with enrollment and grade-level details.
The average graduation rate across high schools in Los Angeles Unified is approximately 69% (EDFacts district-level data, most recent reporting year). Individual school graduation rates may vary; this is a district-wide adjusted-cohort graduation rate.
The largest school in Los Angeles Unified is Grover Cleveland Charter High with 2,781 students.
Los Angeles Unified serves 426,268 students across 784 schools in CA, per the latest NCES Common Core of Data enrollment.
Los Angeles Unified's average proficiency rate of 37% (math and reading combined, EDFacts) is below average and may indicate room for improvement. "Good" depends on what you value — proficiency is one signal; enrollment trends, class size, graduation rates, and district resources also matter. Check individual school pages for granular data.
Student-teacher ratios are reported at the school level by NCES, not aggregated at the district level in our dataset. Open any individual school page in Los Angeles Unified to see its specific student-teacher ratio. The US national average is approximately 16:1 for public schools.
All data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (enrollment, school count, demographics) and EDFacts assessment results (proficiency rates, graduation rates). Proficiency and graduation rates are reported at the district level. Both are federal sources used by the US Department of Education.
School performance data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments.
For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.