James A. Garfield Senior High
Los Angeles Unified
78
SolidScope Score · 62nd percentile
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James A. Garfield
James A. Garfield has a Scope Score of 78 among California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests).
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Test results
What are James A. Garfield’s test results?
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
James A. Garfield66%Advanced: 32%
California57%Advanced: 27%
Math: Proficient or Advanced
Share of students tested
James A. Garfield30%Advanced: 12%
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 James A. Garfield’s results changed?
James A. Garfield’s English results changed the most. In 2017, 64% of its students were in the state’s top two test levels. In 2026 it was 66%.
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
50%75%No comparable tests2017201820192022202320242025202666%James A. Garfield57%California
Math
25%No comparable tests2017201820192022202320242025202630%James A. Garfield32%California
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
James A. Garfield13 in 100282 of 2,233 students
Average school22 in 100
Suspended at least once
Share of students enrolled at any point in the year
James A. Garfield0.2%4 of 2,261 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.
| Measure | James A. Garfield |
|---|---|
| LAUSD School Experience Survey, 2025–26The share of students, families and staff who agreed. The mark on each bar is the district. | |
| Students: Safety | James A. Garfield73%LAUSD 65% · 2126 answers |
| Students: Belonging | James A. Garfield67%LAUSD 61% · 2059 to 2117 answers |
| Students: Caring adults | James A. Garfield65%LAUSD 61% · 2033 to 2127 answers |
| Families: Safety | James A. Garfield83%LAUSD 81% · 552 answers |
| Families: Belonging | James A. Garfield86%LAUSD 87% · 555 to 585 answers |
| Staff: Safety | James A. Garfield97%LAUSD 93% · 225 answers |
| From the staffing records | |
| Average years of teaching experience2024–25 school year | James A. Garfield17 |
| Teachers in their first year2024–25 school year | James A. Garfield2% |
Show every subject in the survey
| Measure | James A. Garfield |
|---|---|
| LAUSD School Experience Survey, 2025–26 | |
| Students: Engagement | James A. Garfield66%LAUSD 61% · 2044 to 2088 answers |
| Students: High expectations | James A. Garfield72%LAUSD 68% · 2032 to 2073 answers |
| Students: Bullied 2 or more times in the past 30 daysLower is better | James A. Garfield9%LAUSD 10% · 2094 to 2110 answers |
| Families: Caring adults | James A. Garfield85%LAUSD 86% · 569 to 571 answers |
| Families: Engagement | James A. Garfield82%LAUSD 83% · 570 to 581 answers |
| Families: High expectations | James A. Garfield88%LAUSD 89% · 536 to 537 answers |
| Families: Bullying reports taken seriously | James A. Garfield75%LAUSD 78% · 560 answers |
| Staff: Caring adults | James A. Garfield80%LAUSD 83% · 224 to 231 answers |
| Staff: High expectations | James A. Garfield91%LAUSD 90% · 222 to 228 answers |
| Staff: Bullying called a mild or insignificant problem | James A. Garfield92%LAUSD 81% · 225 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 James A. Garfield, and how big is it?
The table shows how many students the school has and how many are from low-income families.
| Measure | James A. Garfield |
|---|---|
| StudentsFederal school directory, 2024–25 | James A. Garfield2,237 |
| Students from low-income familiesEligible for free or reduced-price meals, 2024–25. California: 63% | James A. Garfield93%2,076 of 2,237 students |
| Students per teacherA staffing ratio, not class size | James A. Garfield18 |
Show grades and who runs each school
| Measure | James A. Garfield |
|---|---|
| Grades | James A. Garfield9–12 |
| Who runs the school | James A. GarfieldLos Angeles Unified |
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).