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Arleta High and Vaughn Next Century Learning Center

Vaughn Next Century Learning Center scores 77 and Arleta High 70 among California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests). Vaughn Next Century Learning Center’s English (reading and writing) and math results are clearly higher.

Arleta High

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70

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Biggest differences

What are the biggest differences?

The biggest difference in test results is in English. Vaughn Next Century Learning Center has the highest share and Arleta High has the lowest.

Biggest difference

22points

in English. 68% of Vaughn Next Century Learning Center students scored Proficient or Advanced. At Arleta High it was 46%.

Lowest absence

18in 100

students at Vaughn Next Century Learning Center missed 10% or more of school days. It was 24 in 100 at Arleta High.

Low-income families

95%

of Vaughn Next Century Learning Center’s students are from low-income families. At Arleta High it is 89%.

Each tile is read from the figures below, for the schools scored among California high schools. Chronic absence is the 2025–26 school year. Students from low-income families are students eligible for free or reduced-price meals, 2024–25.

Test results

How do their test results compare?

The dark part of each bar is students who scored Advanced. The light part is students who scored Proficient. The dashed line is California for the same grades.

English: Proficient or Advanced

Reading and writing

Arleta High46%Advanced: 12%
Vaughn Next Century Learning Center68%Clearly aheadAdvanced: 32%, clearly ahead
California57%Advanced: 27%

Math: Proficient or Advanced

Share of students tested

Arleta High12%Advanced: 4%
Vaughn Next Century Learning Center26%Clearly aheadAdvanced: 6%
California32%Advanced: 16%

Grade 11, spring 2026. From spring 2026, the state calls its top two levels “Proficient or Advanced” (formerly “Met or Exceeded”). Source: California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education.

Year by year

How have their results changed?

Arleta High’s English results changed the most. In 2017, 57% of its students were in the state’s top two test levels. In 2026 it was 46%.

Share of students in the state’s top two test levels, 2017 to 2026

Grade 11. Each year is a different group of students.

English

Math

The lines break across the COVID years, when state testing was waived or optional. Each figure is our combination of the grades’ published results, weighted by students tested. Source: California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education.

Life at school

Do students show up and stay in class?

A shorter bar is better here. The dashed line is the average California high school we score.

Chronically absent

Students in 100 who missed 10% or more of school days

Arleta High24 in 100244 of 1,023 students
Vaughn Next Century Learning Center18 in 100Clearly ahead490 of 2,693 students
Average school22 in 100

Suspended at least once

Share of students enrolled at any point in the year

Arleta High0.3%3 of 1,059 students
Vaughn Next Century Learning Center0.8%22 of 2,721 students
Average school2.9%

2025–26 school year. Average school: the average California high school we score. Source: California Department of Education.

State growth measure

How did results compare with what the state expected?

The state sets an expected score for each student from that student’s earlier scores. A bar to the right means students scored above it.

English

Points against the expected score

Arleta HighNot available
Vaughn Next Century Learning Center−12points

Math

Points against the expected score

Arleta HighNot available
Vaughn Next Century Learning Center−8points
  • Vaughn Next Century Learning CenterThe state calls both results Moderate. 1,056 students.

Grades 4–8, spring 2025. Students with scores in both years. The measure describes results, not causes. Source: California Department of Education growth model.

Culture, side by side

What do the school, its families and the records say?

A school’s words are its claims. The district’s survey and the staffing records are evidence.

MeasureArleta HighVaughn Next Century Learning Center
LAUSD School Experience Survey, 2025–26The share of students, families and staff who agreed. The mark on each bar is the district.
Students: SafetyArleta High65%LAUSD 65% · 856 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Students: BelongingArleta High56%LAUSD 61% · 832 to 852 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Students: Caring adultsArleta High57%LAUSD 61% · 812 to 853 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Families: SafetyArleta High83%LAUSD 81% · 132 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Families: BelongingArleta High87%LAUSD 87% · 133 to 147 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Staff: SafetyArleta High100%LAUSD 93% · 82 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
From the staffing records
Average years of teaching experience2024–25 school yearArleta High18Vaughn Next Century Learning Center11
Teachers in their first year2024–25 school yearArleta High0%Vaughn Next Century Learning Center1%
Show every subject in the survey
MeasureArleta HighVaughn Next Century Learning Center
LAUSD School Experience Survey, 2025–26
Students: EngagementArleta High55%LAUSD 61% · 822 to 837 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Students: High expectationsArleta High64%LAUSD 68% · 823 to 835 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Students: Bullied 2 or more times in the past 30 daysLower is betterArleta High10%LAUSD 10% · 840 to 846 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Families: Caring adultsArleta High82%LAUSD 86% · 137 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Families: EngagementArleta High83%LAUSD 83% · 137 to 147 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Families: High expectationsArleta High89%LAUSD 89% · 127 to 128 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Families: Bullying reports taken seriouslyArleta High78%LAUSD 78% · 135 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Staff: Caring adultsArleta High95%LAUSD 83% · 82 to 85 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Staff: High expectationsArleta High99%LAUSD 90% · 82 to 84 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Staff: Bullying called a mild or insignificant problemArleta High96%LAUSD 81% · 82 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file

School statements are from each school’s own website on the date shown. A survey figure averages the questions on that subject: the share who agreed, or for student bullying the share it happened to. Teacher records are from the California Department of Education. Nothing here is about a named person.

Who attends

Who attends, and how big are they?

The table shows how many students each school has and how many are from low-income families.

MeasureArleta HighVaughn Next Century Learning Center
StudentsFederal school directory, 2024–25Arleta High1,038Vaughn Next Century Learning Center2,629
Students from low-income familiesEligible for free or reduced-price meals, 2024–25. California: 63%Arleta High89%923 of 1,038 studentsVaughn Next Century Learning Center95%2,494 of 2,629 students
Students per teacherA staffing ratio, not class sizeArleta High18Vaughn Next Century Learning Center21
Show grades and who runs each school
MeasureArleta HighVaughn Next Century Learning Center
GradesArleta High9–12Vaughn Next Century Learning CenterTK–12
Who runs the schoolArleta HighLos Angeles UnifiedVaughn Next Century Learning CenterA charter school
Charter approved byThe approver decides whether the charter is renewed when its term endsArleta HighNot a charterVaughn Next Century Learning CenterLos Angeles UnifiedTerm ends June 30, 2031
Open Arleta High →Open Vaughn Next Century Learning Center →

Sources

Sources and definitions

75 is the typical California school. 100 is the best result in the state. How we score schools

Test results are from California’s state tests (CAASPP), spring 2026. Each figure is the share of students tested in the level’s grades who scored Proficient or Advanced, for one subject. California’s figure is our combination of the state’s published rows for the same grades.

“Clearly ahead” marks a figure that is ahead of the others by more than twice the margin of error. On chronic absence, ahead means lower.

Chronic absence and suspensions are the California Department of Education’s 2025–26 counts. “Chronically absent” means a student missed 10% or more of school days. The average school is the average California school we score at these schools’ level, with each school counted once.

The state growth measure is points above or below what the state expected from these students’ earlier scores. It covers grades 4–8 and comes from the state’s spring 2025 release.

The year-by-year chart shows each spring’s results for grade 11. Each year is a different group of students, so the chart does not show how the same students changed.

Students and students per teacher are from the federal school directory, 2024–25. Students from low-income families are students counted as eligible for free or reduced-price meals in the California Department of Education’s 2024–25 count.

Teacher experience is the California Department of Education’s staffing file for the school year shown (teachers only). A charter’s approver is from CDE’s charter term file and its term end from CDE’s Charter School Database.