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Downtown Business and Contreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community

Downtown Business scores 89 and Contreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community 71 among California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests). Downtown Business’s English (reading and writing) and math results are clearly higher.

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Biggest differences

What are the biggest differences?

The biggest difference in test results is in math. Downtown Business has the highest share and Contreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community has the lowest.

Biggest difference

38points

in math. 65% of Downtown Business students scored Proficient or Advanced. At Contreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community it was 27%.

Lowest absence

15in 100

students at Downtown Business missed 10% or more of school days. It was 30 in 100 at Contreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community.

Low-income families

96%

of Contreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community’s students are from low-income families. At Downtown Business it is 81%.

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

Downtown Business83%Clearly aheadAdvanced: 52%, clearly ahead
Contreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community59%Advanced: 19%
California57%Advanced: 27%

Math: Proficient or Advanced

Share of students tested

Downtown Business65%Clearly aheadAdvanced: 30%, clearly ahead
Contreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community27%Advanced: 11%
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?

Downtown Business’s English results changed the most. In 2017, 97% of its students were in the state’s top two test levels. In 2026 it was 83%.

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

Downtown Business15 in 100Clearly ahead119 of 790 students
Contreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community30 in 100114 of 375 students
Average school22 in 100

Suspended at least once

Share of students enrolled at any point in the year

Downtown Business0%0 of 807 students
Contreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community0.3%1 of 390 students
Average school2.9%

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

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.

MeasureDowntown BusinessContreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community
LAUSD School Experience Survey, 2025–26The share of students, families and staff who agreed. The mark on each bar is the district.
Students: SafetyDowntown Business75%LAUSD 65% · 742 answersContreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community55%LAUSD 65% · 317 answers
Students: BelongingDowntown Business70%LAUSD 61% · 728 to 738 answersContreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community58%LAUSD 61% · 302 to 314 answers
Students: Caring adultsDowntown Business66%LAUSD 61% · 722 to 740 answersContreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community61%LAUSD 61% · 298 to 316 answers
Families: SafetyDowntown Business88%LAUSD 81% · 330 answersContreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community69%LAUSD 81% · 306 answers
Families: BelongingDowntown Business90%LAUSD 87% · 329 to 339 answersContreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community83%LAUSD 87% · 307 to 314 answers
Staff: SafetyDowntown Business96%LAUSD 93% · 68 answersContreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community87%LAUSD 93% · 45 answers
From the staffing records
Average years of teaching experience2024–25 school yearDowntown Business14Contreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community10
Teachers in their first year2024–25 school yearDowntown Business0%Contreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community12%
Show every subject in the survey
MeasureDowntown BusinessContreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community
LAUSD School Experience Survey, 2025–26
Students: EngagementDowntown Business67%LAUSD 61% · 720 to 729 answersContreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community57%LAUSD 61% · 299 to 307 answers
Students: High expectationsDowntown Business71%LAUSD 68% · 718 to 729 answersContreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community68%LAUSD 68% · 299 to 304 answers
Students: Bullied 2 or more times in the past 30 daysLower is betterDowntown Business8%LAUSD 10% · 724 to 732 answersContreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community8%LAUSD 10% · 309 to 311 answers
Families: Caring adultsDowntown Business90%LAUSD 86% · 332 to 333 answersContreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community83%LAUSD 86% · 310 answers
Families: EngagementDowntown Business84%LAUSD 83% · 333 to 337 answersContreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community82%LAUSD 83% · 309 to 314 answers
Families: High expectationsDowntown Business94%LAUSD 89% · 324 answersContreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community85%LAUSD 89% · 304 to 305 answers
Families: Bullying reports taken seriouslyDowntown Business83%LAUSD 78% · 331 answersContreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community76%LAUSD 78% · 309 answers
Staff: Caring adultsDowntown Business87%LAUSD 83% · 67 to 71 answersContreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community82%LAUSD 83% · 45 to 46 answers
Staff: High expectationsDowntown Business90%LAUSD 90% · 65 to 71 answersContreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community84%LAUSD 90% · 44 to 46 answers
Staff: Bullying called a mild or insignificant problemDowntown Business93%LAUSD 81% · 70 answersContreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community71%LAUSD 81% · 45 answers

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?

Both schools are run by Los Angeles Unified. Ask the district which school serves your address.

MeasureDowntown BusinessContreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community
StudentsFederal school directory, 2024–25Downtown Business819Contreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership CommunityNot available
Students from low-income familiesEligible for free or reduced-price meals, 2024–25. California: 63%Downtown Business81%667 of 819 studentsContreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community96%377 of 392 students
Students per teacherA staffing ratio, not class sizeDowntown Business18Contreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership CommunityNot available
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MeasureDowntown BusinessContreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community
GradesDowntown Business9–12Contreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership Community9–12
Who runs the schoolDowntown BusinessLos Angeles UnifiedContreras Learning Center-Academic Leadership CommunityLos Angeles Unified
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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 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).