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Manual Arts and Foshay Learning Center

Foshay Learning Center scores 82 and Manual Arts 67 among California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests). Foshay Learning Center’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 English. Foshay Learning Center has the highest share and Manual Arts has the lowest.

Biggest difference

37points

in English. 72% of Foshay Learning Center students scored Proficient or Advanced. At Manual Arts it was 35%.

Lowest absence

21in 100

students at Foshay Learning Center missed 10% or more of school days. It was 38 in 100 at Manual Arts.

Low-income families

98%

of Manual Arts’s students are from low-income families. At Foshay Learning Center it is 85%.

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

Manual Arts35%Advanced: 12%
Foshay Learning Center72%Clearly aheadAdvanced: 30%, clearly ahead
California57%Advanced: 27%

Math: Proficient or Advanced

Share of students tested

Manual Arts10%Advanced: 3%
Foshay Learning Center29%Clearly aheadAdvanced: 9%, clearly ahead
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?

Foshay Learning Center’s English results changed the most. In 2017, 46% of its students were in the state’s top two test levels. In 2026 it was 72%.

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
Foshay Learning Center21 in 100Clearly ahead330 of 1,598 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
Foshay Learning Center0.4%7 of 1,620 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

Manual ArtsNot available
Foshay Learning Center−3points

Math

Points against the expected score

Manual ArtsNot available
Foshay Learning Center−8points
  • Foshay Learning CenterThe state calls the English result Average and the math result Moderate. 665 students in English, 669 in math.

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

How does each school describe itself?

Each school in its own words, with the outside list behind a named approach.

Manual Arts

We have not read this school’s website yet.

Foshay Learning Center

International Baccalaureate (Primary Years, Middle Years)Whole school, listed by International Baccalaureate Organization ↗

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 ArtsFoshay 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: SafetyManual Arts46%LAUSD 65% · 660 answersFoshay Learning Center84%LAUSD 77% · 43 answers
Students: BelongingManual Arts48%LAUSD 61% · 629 to 656 answersFoshay Learning Center80%LAUSD 68% · 43 answers
Students: Caring adultsManual Arts54%LAUSD 61% · 613 to 657 answersFoshay Learning Center88%LAUSD 75% · 42 to 43 answers
Families: SafetyManual ArtsToo few answeredFoshay Learning Center58%LAUSD 82% · 55 answers
Families: BelongingManual ArtsToo few answeredFoshay Learning Center78%LAUSD 89% · 55 to 58 answers
Staff: SafetyManual Arts92%LAUSD 93% · 84 answersFoshay Learning Center86%LAUSD 97% · 117 answers
From the staffing records
Average years of teaching experience2024–25 school yearManual Arts12Foshay Learning Center14
Teachers in their first year2024–25 school yearManual Arts8%Foshay Learning Center4%
Show every subject in the survey
MeasureManual ArtsFoshay Learning Center
LAUSD School Experience Survey, 2025–26
Students: EngagementManual Arts54%LAUSD 61% · 622 to 639 answersFoshay Learning Center81%LAUSD 68% · 43 answers
Students: High expectationsManual Arts63%LAUSD 68% · 624 to 631 answersFoshay Learning Center93%LAUSD 84% · 43 answers
Students: Bullied 2 or more times in the past 30 daysLower is betterManual Arts11%LAUSD 10% · 646 to 652 answersFoshay Learning Center20%LAUSD 24% · 43 answers
Families: Caring adultsManual ArtsToo few answeredFoshay Learning Center71%LAUSD 87% · 54 to 55 answers
Families: EngagementManual ArtsToo few answeredFoshay Learning Center64%LAUSD 84% · 55 to 57 answers
Families: High expectationsManual ArtsToo few answeredFoshay Learning Center64%LAUSD 84% · 54 to 55 answers
Families: Bullying reports taken seriouslyManual ArtsToo few answeredFoshay Learning Center49%LAUSD 74% · 55 answers
Staff: Caring adultsManual Arts58%LAUSD 83% · 84 to 87 answersFoshay Learning Center65%LAUSD 89% · 117 to 128 answers
Staff: High expectationsManual Arts74%LAUSD 90% · 83 answersFoshay Learning Center84%LAUSD 95% · 120 to 124 answers
Staff: Bullying called a mild or insignificant problemManual Arts64%LAUSD 81% · 84 answersFoshay Learning Center54%LAUSD 86% · 122 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.

MeasureManual ArtsFoshay Learning Center
StudentsFederal school directory, 2024–25Manual Arts1,001Foshay Learning Center1,530
Students from low-income familiesEligible for free or reduced-price meals, 2024–25. California: 63%Manual Arts98%976 of 1,001 studentsFoshay Learning Center85%1,296 of 1,530 students
Students per teacherA staffing ratio, not class sizeManual Arts16Foshay Learning Center20
Show grades and who runs each school
MeasureManual ArtsFoshay Learning Center
GradesManual Arts9–12Foshay Learning CenterK–12
Who runs the schoolManual ArtsLos Angeles UnifiedFoshay Learning CenterLos 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 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).