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Manual Arts

Manual Arts has a Scope Score of 67 among California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests).

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Test results

What are Manual Arts’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

Manual Arts35%Advanced: 12%
California57%Advanced: 27%

Math: Proficient or Advanced

Share of students tested

Manual Arts10%Advanced: 3%
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 Manual Arts’s results changed?

Manual Arts’s English results changed the most. In 2017, 33% of its students were in the state’s top two test levels. In 2026 it was 35%.

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

Manual Arts38 in 100360 of 960 students
Average school22 in 100

Suspended at least once

Share of students enrolled at any point in the year

Manual Arts0.3%3 of 1,010 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.

MeasureManual Arts
LAUSD School Experience Survey, 2025–26The share of students, families and staff who agreed. The mark on each bar is the district.
Students: SafetyManual Arts46%LAUSD 65% · 660 answers
Students: BelongingManual Arts48%LAUSD 61% · 629 to 656 answers
Students: Caring adultsManual Arts54%LAUSD 61% · 613 to 657 answers
Staff: SafetyManual Arts92%LAUSD 93% · 84 answers
From the staffing records
Average years of teaching experience2024–25 school yearManual Arts12
Teachers in their first year2024–25 school yearManual Arts8%
Show every subject in the survey
MeasureManual Arts
LAUSD School Experience Survey, 2025–26
Students: EngagementManual Arts54%LAUSD 61% · 622 to 639 answers
Students: High expectationsManual Arts63%LAUSD 68% · 624 to 631 answers
Students: Bullied 2 or more times in the past 30 daysLower is betterManual Arts11%LAUSD 10% · 646 to 652 answers
Staff: Caring adultsManual Arts58%LAUSD 83% · 84 to 87 answers
Staff: High expectationsManual Arts74%LAUSD 90% · 83 answers
Staff: Bullying called a mild or insignificant problemManual Arts64%LAUSD 81% · 84 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 Manual Arts, and how big is it?

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

MeasureManual Arts
StudentsFederal school directory, 2024–25Manual Arts1,001
Students from low-income familiesEligible for free or reduced-price meals, 2024–25. California: 63%Manual Arts98%976 of 1,001 students
Students per teacherA staffing ratio, not class sizeManual Arts16
Show grades and who runs each school
MeasureManual Arts
GradesManual Arts9–12
Who runs the schoolManual ArtsLos 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).