Cheviot Hills Continuation: The scores are below where anyone wants them. Here's what they don't tell you.
Cheviot Hills Continuation posts low test scores — and suspensions run below the state rate (1.5% vs 3.6%). If this is your zoned school, the numbers below are where to start a conversation, not where to end one.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Grad rate | College readiness | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 19 | 2% | 4% | 71.1% | 0.0% | 67.9% | 1.5% |
| CA average · High School | 44 | 16% | 36% | 87.6% | 35.4% | 30.2% | 3.6% |
Cheviot Hills Continuation scores 19 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 8th percentile of 2,160 California high schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🌱 Building Momentum — This label means the data doesn't clearly sort the school one way or the other — ask what the school is proud of, and what it's working on.
Most rating sites would stop at “4% proficient” and call it done. Cheviot Hills Continuation deserves a closer read. The school sits in Los Angeles, where nearly all students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Test scores are one lens, and at this school they're a rough one right now. The sections below show the fuller picture — including the parts that are working.
The seven-year arc
Has stayed near the 8th percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 4% meet the standard today, versus 8% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 17% | 18% | 9% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
The story this school is actually telling
Of 100 students here: 4 are proficient by 11th grade → 71 graduate → 0 pass an AP exam. The gaps between those bars are the questions to ask.
The 6 things our score weighs
Ask what changed in the last two years, and what the school is asking families for. Growth shows up in these numbers a year or two after it shows up in classrooms.
- Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
- Ask what share of students complete the full college-prep course sequence, and who gets steered into it.
- Ask whether the tour can step into a working classroom — watch how the teacher handles a student who's stuck.
- Ask to tour while school's in session, and notice how hallways and transitions feel — culture shows up between classes, not just in them.
- Ask how the school communicates with families when a child starts to struggle.
- Ask what a typical day looks like for a new student in the first few weeks.
How every group of students does here
At Cheviot Hills Continuation in Los Angeles, 11.1% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Cheviot Hills Continuation trails its district average for low-income students by 29.8 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (0.0% Math proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 18 students tested.
7 of 11 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated path based on proximity within the same district. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$2,222 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.
The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.
District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.
Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →
The neighborhood it serves
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level
At 25 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California high school (≈1450).
On the state's science test (CAST), 0% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
Frequently asked questions
What is Cheviot Hills Continuation for?
Cheviot Hills is a small continuation high school for grades 9-12. It serves students who need a different path to a diploma than a regular high school offers — often kids who've fallen behind on credits or need a more flexible schedule to finish. The school describes itself as offering individualized learning plans, flexible scheduling, and a mix of in-person and online coursework built around credit recovery (school website). Enrollment is 25 students at a point in time (fact block), so this is a small, personalized setting by design, not a scaled-down comprehensive campus.
Is Cheviot Hills the right place for my student?
This kind of school tends to help students who are behind on credits, need a flexible schedule, or haven't been able to re-engage in a large comprehensive setting. It's built around individualized plans and blended online/in-person work, not a traditional four-year academic track. If your student wants AP classes or a big campus with a wide course catalog, that's not what this school offers — it has 0 AP courses on record (fact block). If your student needs a smaller, more flexible structure to get back on track toward a diploma, that's exactly the population this school is designed for.
What do the numbers here actually mean?
The numbers describe a population that didn't get where it needed to be in a comprehensive school before arriving here. Chronic absenteeism is 67.9%, and CAASPP shows 4.3% met or exceeded standard overall, with 0.0% in grade 11 math and 0.0% on the science assessment (fact block). Those figures would be a serious warning sign on a comprehensive campus. At a continuation school, they describe students who were already disengaged from daily attendance and standardized testing before they got here — comparing this to a comprehensive school's numbers compares two different jobs. Meanwhile 71.1% of students graduate, which is the number that speaks most directly to the school doing what it exists to do (fact block).
How much should I trust these percentages?
Not as fixed trends. Enrollment is 25 students at a point in time (fact block), so a handful of students moving in or out can swing any rate — graduation, absenteeism, proficiency — by many percentage points in a single year. Treat every number here as a snapshot of this particular small group, not a stable pattern you can count on repeating.
Does Cheviot Hills live up to what it says about itself?
Partly. The school says it offers individualized plans, flexible scheduling, and blended coursework supporting credit recovery. A 71.1% graduation rate and per-pupil spending of $58,590 (versus $23,518 statewide) back that up. The resources described are actually there (fact block). But the school also says it delivers 'rigorous, standards-based instruction' aimed at college and career readiness, and the numbers complicate that: 4.3% met or exceeded standard overall, 0.0% in grade 11 math, 0.0% on science, and no AP courses offered (fact block). The website also describes counselors providing 'consistent attendance support,' while chronic absenteeism sits at 67.9%. That gap points to a real, ongoing need rather than support that isn't happening. Worth asking on a visit: what does 'rigorous instruction' look like day to day for a student testing well below grade level, and how does attendance outreach actually work for a majority of students who are chronically absent? The website also names a counselor for college and financial aid support, but the data can't tell us how many students actually use that service. That's a fair thing to ask about directly.
What we found when we looked closer
Cheviot Hills Continuation exists to do a specific job: give students who haven't finished on the standard track a flexible, personalized way to earn a diploma. Judging it by comprehensive-school yardsticks misses the point of why it exists. With a point-in-time enrollment of 25 students, it offers individualized learning plans, flexible scheduling, and a mix of in-person and online coursework aimed at credit recovery (school website; fact block).
The headline number that matters most here is graduation: 71.1% of students complete a diploma, in a population that comprehensive campuses were not able to serve the standard way. That outcome is backed by real resourcing — per-pupil spending of $58,590, roughly 2.5 times the state average of $23,518 — which is consistent with the counseling, flexible scheduling, and individualized attention the school says it provides.
Set next to that is a set of numbers that would be alarming on a comprehensive campus: chronic absenteeism of 67.9%, and CAASPP proficiency of just 4.3% met or exceeded overall, with 0.0% in grade 11 math and 0.0% on science. Read in isolation, those look like failure. Read as a description of who continuation schools serve — students already disengaged from daily attendance and standardized testing before they arrived — they're closer to a baseline than a verdict. A school can graduate a majority of a cohort that tests near zero on state exams precisely because its job is re-engagement and an alternate path to a diploma, not grade-level mastery on a fixed timeline.
Where the school's own language holds up well against the record: it says it supports credit recovery and postsecondary preparation through personalized plans and flexible scheduling, and the graduation rate plus the spending level back that up directly. Where it holds up less well: the school also describes 'rigorous, standards-based instruction' aimed at college and career readiness, language that sits uneasily next to 0% proficiency in grade 11 math and science, and zero AP courses offered. And while the school describes counselors providing 'consistent attendance support,' the 67.9% absenteeism rate suggests that support is working against a very difficult starting point, not that it isn't happening.
A few things worth asking about in person, because the data can't answer them. Half the teaching staff is in their first year, with average teacher experience of just 3.0 years and 69.2% full credentialing. Worth asking whether that's a one-year staffing gap or a longer pattern. The website names a specific counselor for college and financial-aid help, but nothing in the record shows how many students actually use that service, even though 22.4% complete A-G requirements. The record also doesn't say how students end up here. Credit deficiency, court involvement, disciplinary transfer, or a family's own choice all shape what kind of support a given student actually needs, and the record doesn't specify which applies. With only 25 students, every one of these numbers can move sharply from one class to the next, so a visit and a direct conversation with staff will tell you more than any single year's rate.
Written by SchoolScope from Cheviot Hills Continuation’s own website and California Department of Education data, checked 2026-08-09· How we do this · Who we are
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- cheviothillschs.lausd.org — home
- cheviothillschs.lausd.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?pREC_ID=2436117&type=d&uREC_ID=3751897 — about
- cheviothillschs.lausd.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?pREC_ID=2435831&type=d&uREC_ID=3751897 — principal
- cheviothillschs.lausd.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?pREC_ID=2436150&type=d&uREC_ID=3751897 — supports
- cheviothillschs.lausd.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?pREC_ID=2436158&type=d&uREC_ID=3751897 — enrollment
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Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 23 | 4% | 4% | 35% | 57% | 9% | −38 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 23 | 0% | 0% | 4% | 96% | 0% | −23 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 22 | 0% | 0% | 64% | 36% |
CAST is tested in grades 5, 8, and once in high school — not annually. Not part of the Scope Score.
| Subgroup · ELA | Tested | MET+ | vs district | vs CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 18 | 11.1% | −30 | −27 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheviot Hills Continuation ← | — | 19 | 2.2% | 4.3% | — | 1.5% |
| Culver City High | 2 mi | 63 | 32.8% | 55.7% | — | 1.9% |
| Beverly Hills High | 2.1 mi | 63 | 36.6% | 59.7% | — | 3.2% |
| Alexander Hamilton Senior High | 0.2 mi | 54 | 17.8% | 42.1% | — | 1.6% |
| California average | — | 44 | 15.8% | 35.7% | — | 3.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 22 | 13 | #1783 | 2.8% | 8.3% | 43.7% | 2.5% | — |
| 2022 | 19 | 9 | #1908 | 0.0% | 8.8% | 58.8% | 2.0% | — |
| 2025 | 19 | 8 | #1987 | 2.2% | 4.3% | 67.9% | 1.5% | — |
- — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 27 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 67.7% | 88.0% | +20.3pp |
| Male | 53.3% | 94.1% | +40.8pp |
| Black/African American | 42.9% | 90.5% | +47.6pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 64.6% | 90.3% | +25.7pp |
| English Learners | 75.0% | — | — |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 58.6% | 90.9% | +32.3pp |
| All Students | 58.2% | 91.5% | +33.3pp |
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