Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts and New Designs Charter

Both are in the top quarter among California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests). New Designs Charter’s math results are clearly higher; English (reading and writing) is close between the two.

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Needs Support25 in 100Developing25 in 100Solid25 in 100Strong25 in 100
All 1,498 California public high schools we score, placed by Scope Score on spring 2025 tests.
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How do their test results compare?

From spring 2026, the state calls its top two levels “Proficient or Advanced” (formerly “Met or Exceeded”). marks a figure clearly ahead of the other school. California: the same grades statewide.

English: Proficient or Advanced

Grade 11, spring 2026

Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts
67%Advanced: 30%
New Designs Charter
75%Advanced: 37%
California
57%Advanced: 27%

Math: Proficient or Advanced

Grade 11, spring 2026

Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts
23%Advanced: 7%
New Designs Charter
Clearly ahead: 74%Clearly ahead: Advanced: 54%
California
32%Advanced: 16%

Do students show up and stay in class?

Average school: the average California high school we score.

Chronically absent

Missed 10% or more of school days · 2025–26 school year

Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts
16 in 100132 of 826 students
New Designs Charter
Clearly ahead: 8 in 10064 of 788 students
Average school
22 in 100

Suspended at least once

2025–26 school year

Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts
0 of 836 students enrolled at any point in the year
New Designs Charter
1.1%9 of 818 students enrolled at any point in the year
Average school
2.9%

How did results compare with what the state expected?

The state’s matched growth measure compares each student’s results with what the state expected from their earlier scores.

State growth measure, points vs expected

Spring 2025 · students with scores in both years

Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts
+13 pts English +5 pts mathGrades 4–8 · The state calls both Accelerated · 367 students
New Designs Charter
−4 pts English −23 pts mathGrades 6–8 · The state calls them Average in English and Minimal in math · 309 students

How are they scored, who runs them, and how big are they?

Percentile among California high schools, with the Scope Score

Spring 2025 tests: high scores include graduation and college-readiness records, which the state publishes a year after the tests

Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts
83rd percentileStrongScope Score 70
New Designs Charter
86th percentileStrongScope Score 72

A charter’s authorizer decides whether its charter is renewed when the term ends.

Who runs the school

Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts
Los Angeles Unified
New Designs Charter
A charter school

Charter approved by, and when the current term ends

Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts
Not a charter
New Designs Charter
Los Angeles UnifiedTerm ends June 30, 2027

Teachers in their first year

2024–25 school year

Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts
5%
New Designs Charter
5%

Average years of teaching experience

2024–25 school year

Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts
16
New Designs Charter
6

Size, grades and staffing help you picture the school. A staffing ratio is not class size.

Students per teacher

Public schools: federal school directory, 2024–25 · a staffing ratio, not class size

Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts
19
New Designs Charter
44

Grades offered

Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts
K–12
New Designs Charter
6–12

Sources and definitions

Test results are from California’s state tests (CAASPP), spring 2026: the share of students tested in the level’s grades who scored Proficient or Advanced, per subject. California’s figure is our combination of the state’s published rows for the same grades. A ✓ marks a figure 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 absence and suspension references are the average California school we score at these schools’ level, each school counted once. The state growth measure is points above or below what the state expected from these students’ earlier scores, for grades 4–8, from the state’s spring 2025 release. Students per teacher is from the federal school directory, 2024–25, which also lists enrollment: Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts 842; New Designs Charter 784. Teacher experience is the California Department of Education’s staffing file for the school year shown (teachers only). A charter’s authorizer is from CDE’s charter term file and its term end from CDE’s Charter School Database.

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