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San Fernando Senior High and Vaughn Next Century Learning Center

Vaughn Next Century Learning Center scores 77 and San Fernando Senior High 72 among California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests). Vaughn Next Century Learning Center’s English (reading and writing) results are clearly higher. Math is close between the two.

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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 San Fernando Senior High has the lowest.

Biggest difference

23points

in English. 68% of Vaughn Next Century Learning Center students scored Proficient or Advanced. At San Fernando Senior High it was 45%.

Lowest absence

18in 100

students at Vaughn Next Century Learning Center missed 10% or more of school days. It was 33 in 100 at San Fernando Senior High.

Low-income families

95%

of Vaughn Next Century Learning Center’s students are from low-income families. At San Fernando Senior High it is 93%.

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

San Fernando Senior High45%Advanced: 16%
Vaughn Next Century Learning Center68%Clearly aheadAdvanced: 32%, clearly ahead
California57%Advanced: 27%

Math: Proficient or Advanced

Share of students tested

San Fernando Senior High21%Advanced: 7%
Vaughn Next Century Learning Center26%Advanced: 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?

San Fernando Senior High’s English results changed the most. In 2017, 53% of its students were in the state’s top two test levels. In 2026 it was 45%.

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

San Fernando Senior High33 in 100522 of 1,580 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

San Fernando Senior High0.2%4 of 1,651 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

San Fernando Senior HighNot available
Vaughn Next Century Learning Center−12points

Math

Points against the expected score

San Fernando Senior 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.

MeasureSan Fernando Senior 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: SafetySan Fernando Senior High69%LAUSD 65% · 1191 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Students: BelongingSan Fernando Senior High67%LAUSD 61% · 1166 to 1184 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Students: Caring adultsSan Fernando Senior High63%LAUSD 61% · 1151 to 1188 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Families: SafetySan Fernando Senior High79%LAUSD 81% · 639 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Families: BelongingSan Fernando Senior High88%LAUSD 87% · 635 to 661 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Staff: SafetySan Fernando Senior High93%LAUSD 93% · 138 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
From the staffing records
Average years of teaching experience2024–25 school yearSan Fernando Senior High17Vaughn Next Century Learning Center11
Teachers in their first year2024–25 school yearSan Fernando Senior High2%Vaughn Next Century Learning Center1%
Show every subject in the survey
MeasureSan Fernando Senior HighVaughn Next Century Learning Center
LAUSD School Experience Survey, 2025–26
Students: EngagementSan Fernando Senior High63%LAUSD 61% · 1154 to 1170 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Students: High expectationsSan Fernando Senior High70%LAUSD 68% · 1152 to 1170 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Students: Bullied 2 or more times in the past 30 daysLower is betterSan Fernando Senior High9%LAUSD 10% · 1171 to 1182 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Families: Caring adultsSan Fernando Senior High86%LAUSD 86% · 649 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Families: EngagementSan Fernando Senior High84%LAUSD 83% · 649 to 660 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Families: High expectationsSan Fernando Senior High89%LAUSD 89% · 618 to 621 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Families: Bullying reports taken seriouslySan Fernando Senior High80%LAUSD 78% · 644 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Staff: Caring adultsSan Fernando Senior High84%LAUSD 83% · 137 to 144 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Staff: High expectationsSan Fernando Senior High91%LAUSD 90% · 137 to 141 answersVaughn Next Century Learning CenterNo survey on file
Staff: Bullying called a mild or insignificant problemSan Fernando Senior High78%LAUSD 81% · 141 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.

MeasureSan Fernando Senior HighVaughn Next Century Learning Center
StudentsFederal school directory, 2024–25San Fernando Senior High1,608Vaughn Next Century Learning Center2,629
Students from low-income familiesEligible for free or reduced-price meals, 2024–25. California: 63%San Fernando Senior High93%1,499 of 1,608 studentsVaughn Next Century Learning Center95%2,494 of 2,629 students
Students per teacherA staffing ratio, not class sizeSan Fernando Senior High19Vaughn Next Century Learning Center21
Show grades and who runs each school
MeasureSan Fernando Senior HighVaughn Next Century Learning Center
GradesSan Fernando Senior High9–12Vaughn Next Century Learning CenterTK–12
Who runs the schoolSan Fernando Senior HighLos Angeles UnifiedVaughn Next Century Learning CenterA charter school
Charter approved byThe approver decides whether the charter is renewed when its term endsSan Fernando Senior HighNot a charterVaughn Next Century Learning CenterLos Angeles UnifiedTerm ends June 30, 2031
Open San Fernando Senior 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.