Venice Senior High
Los Angeles Unified
81
StrongScope Score · 75th percentile
Compare · high
Venice and New West Charter
New West Charter scores 86 and Venice 81 among California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests). No school is clearly ahead in English (reading and writing) or math.
New West Charter
Charter school · Los Angeles
86
StrongScope Score · 86th percentile
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Biggest differences
What are the biggest differences?
Low-income families
65%
of Venice’s students are from low-income families. At New West Charter it is 18%.
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
Venice63%Advanced: 35%grade 11
New West CharterNot available
Math: Proficient or Advanced
Share of students tested
Venice38%Advanced: 20%grade 11
New West CharterNot available
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?
Venice’s English results changed the most. In 2017, 69% of its students were in the state’s top two test levels. In 2026 it was 63%.
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 tests2017201820192022202320242025202663%Venice84%New West Charter57%California
Math
25%50%No comparable tests2017201820192022202320242025202638%Venice48%New West Charter32%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
Venice29 in 100700 of 2,390 students
New West CharterNot available
Average school22 in 100
Suspended at least once
Share of students enrolled at any point in the year
Venice0.1%3 of 2,455 students
New West CharterNot available
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
VeniceNot available
New West Charter−1point
Math
Points against the expected score
VeniceNot available
New West Charter−18points
- New West CharterThe state calls the English result Average and the math result Moderate. 379 students in English, 375 in math.
Grades 6–8, 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.
Venice
We have not read this school’s website yet.
New West Charter
“The mission of New West Charter School is to provide an academically rigorous, highly individualized education for 21st Century students in grades 6 – 12.”
- visual arts
- Dance Team
From its website ↗, read October 28, 2026
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 | Venice | New West Charter |
|---|---|---|
| From each school’s website | ||
| Teaching themesOur tags on the school’s own statements | VeniceNot read yet | New West Charter
|
| Class sizeAs the school states it | VeniceNot read yet | New West Charter30-32 students per classroomRead October 27, 2026 |
| Languages | VeniceNot read yet | New West CharterLatin I Recommended For: Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors Prerequisites: NoneRead October 28, 2026 |
| Uniform | VeniceNot read yet | New West CharterUniform required; policy developed to promote safety and create non-disruptive environmentRead October 27, 2026 |
| LAUSD School Experience Survey, 2025–26The share of students, families and staff who agreed. The mark on each bar is the district. | ||
| Students: Safety | Venice67%LAUSD 65% · 2123 answers | New West CharterNo survey on file |
| Students: Belonging | Venice62%LAUSD 61% · 2049 to 2110 answers | New West CharterNo survey on file |
| Students: Caring adults | Venice58%LAUSD 61% · 2019 to 2118 answers | New West CharterNo survey on file |
| Families: Safety | Venice84%LAUSD 81% · 432 answers | New West CharterNo survey on file |
| Families: Belonging | Venice87%LAUSD 87% · 429 to 453 answers | New West CharterNo survey on file |
| Staff: Safety | Venice97%LAUSD 93% · 189 answers | New West CharterNo survey on file |
| From the staffing records | ||
| Average years of teaching experience2024–25 school year | Venice11 | New West Charter6 |
| Teachers in their first year2024–25 school year | Venice7% | New West Charter5% |
Show every subject in the survey
| Measure | Venice | New West Charter |
|---|---|---|
| LAUSD School Experience Survey, 2025–26 | ||
| Students: Engagement | Venice61%LAUSD 61% · 2039 to 2063 answers | New West CharterNo survey on file |
| Students: High expectations | Venice63%LAUSD 68% · 2033 to 2058 answers | New West CharterNo survey on file |
| Students: Bullied 2 or more times in the past 30 daysLower is better | Venice11%LAUSD 10% · 2075 to 2092 answers | New West CharterNo survey on file |
| Families: Caring adults | Venice80%LAUSD 86% · 442 to 444 answers | New West CharterNo survey on file |
| Families: Engagement | Venice79%LAUSD 83% · 442 to 454 answers | New West CharterNo survey on file |
| Families: High expectations | Venice92%LAUSD 89% · 428 answers | New West CharterNo survey on file |
| Families: Bullying reports taken seriously | Venice66%LAUSD 78% · 437 answers | New West CharterNo survey on file |
| Staff: Caring adults | Venice84%LAUSD 83% · 186 to 200 answers | New West CharterNo survey on file |
| Staff: High expectations | Venice89%LAUSD 90% · 186 to 191 answers | New West CharterNo survey on file |
| Staff: Bullying called a mild or insignificant problem | Venice83%LAUSD 81% · 192 answers | New West CharterNo 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.
| Measure | Venice | New West Charter |
|---|---|---|
| StudentsFederal school directory, 2024–25 | Venice2,293 | New West Charter980 |
| Students from low-income familiesEligible for free or reduced-price meals, 2024–25. California: 63% | Venice65%1,484 of 2,293 students | New West Charter18%181 of 980 students |
| Students per teacherA staffing ratio, not class size | Venice21 | New West Charter18 |
Show grades and who runs each school
| Measure | Venice | New West Charter |
|---|---|---|
| Grades | Venice9–12 | New West Charter6–12 |
| Who runs the school | VeniceLos Angeles Unified | New West CharterA charter school |
| Charter approved byThe approver decides whether the charter is renewed when its term ends | VeniceNot a charter | New West CharterLos Angeles UnifiedTerm ends June 30, 2030 |
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.