Early College Academy-LA Trade Tech College: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Early College Academy-LA Trade Tech College posts 50% meeting the standard, and 26.8% going well past it. Most kids here keep up. Fewer get pushed further. Ask the school what it does for a child who already finds the work easy.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Grad rate | College readiness | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 59 | 27% | 50% | 100.0% | 51.9% | 11.1% | 0.7% |
| CA average · High School | 44 | 16% | 36% | 87.6% | 35.4% | 30.2% | 3.6% |
Early College Academy-LA Trade Tech College scores 59 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 83rd percentile of 2,160 California high schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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💪 Strong All-Around — Ask about what we don't score — class size, electives, the feel of a classroom — strong numbers everywhere on paper don't mean every classroom feels the same.
Most rating sites would stop at “50% proficient” and call it done. Early College Academy-LA Trade Tech College deserves a closer read. The school sits in Los Angeles, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Early College Academy-LA Trade Tech College's low-income kids hit 69.5% proficiency in ELA — a number the same group reaches at 38.2% statewide. If you're trying to read past zip-code-driven test scores, that's the signal worth weighing.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 50th to the 83rd percentile since 2019 — past roughly 700 high schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 50% of students meet the standard today, above the 16% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 23% | 63% | 65% | 52% | 70% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 9% | 20% | 31% | 21% | 30% |
The story this school is actually telling
Of 100 students here: 50 are proficient by 11th grade → 100 graduate → 52 pass an AP exam. The gaps between those bars are the questions to ask.
Early College Academy-LA Trade Tech College's most underrated number
69.5% of low-income students met the ELA standard — versus 38.2% for the same group statewide. That's the strongest kind of signal a school can post: it holds across income lines.
The 6 things our score weighs
Ask how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.
- Ask whether extra support — tutoring, counseling, small groups — reaches kids across income lines, not just the students already ahead.
- 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 Early College Academy-LA Trade Tech College in Los Angeles, 69.5% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Early College Academy-LA Trade Tech College outperforms its district average for low-income students by 28.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (30.5% Math proficient); Hispanic students (69.5% ELA proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 59 students tested.
5 of 10 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.
Feeder patterns derived from NCES attendance boundary data. Boundaries are approximate and may have changed — verify with your school district for current assignments.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
These measure different things: this figure is spending attributed to this campus, while district-wide figures also include central administration, districtwide programs, and the state's pension contributions made on the district's behalf — costs that never get assigned to a single school. The district number runs higher at nearly every school, not just this one.
$883 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 272 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California high school (≈1450).
On the state's science test (CAST), 57% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
Frequently asked questions
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Your other options
Nearby High Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 65
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 61
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
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 | 69 | 42% | 28% | 22% | 9% | 70% | +22 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 69 | 12% | 19% | 46% | 23% | 30% | +7 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 69 | 9% | 48% | 43% | 0% |
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 | 59 | 69.5% | +29 | +31 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 59 | 69.5% | +28 | +31 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early College Academy-LA Trade Tech College ← | — | 59 | 26.8% | 50.0% | — | 0.7% |
| Downtown Business High | 2.1 mi | 68 | 43.7% | 71.9% | — | 0.3% |
| Orthopaedic Hospital | 0.3 mi | 65 | 24.1% | 54.6% | — | 0.4% |
| Ednovate - USC Hybrid High College Prep | 1.8 mi | 62 | 28.4% | 57.6% | — | 1.6% |
| California average | — | 44 | 15.8% | 35.7% | — | 3.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 47 | 50 | #1014 | 4.3% | 15.7% | 17.2% | 1.6% | — |
| 2022 | 54 | 76 | #510 | 15.0% | 41.7% | 29.6% | 0.8% | — |
| 2023 | 56 | 79 | #457 | 17.6% | 48.0% | 19.3% | 1.1% | — |
| 2024 | 54 | 75 | #540 | 18.3% | 36.6% | 16.5% | 1.5% | — |
| 2025 | 59 | 83 | #359 | 26.8% | 50.0% | 11.1% | 0.7% | — |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 14.3% | 8.4% | -5.9pp |
| Male | 12.1% | 4.6% | -7.5pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 12.2% | 6.0% | -6.2pp |
| English Learners | 9.1% | — | — |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 12.9% | 6.6% | -6.3pp |
| All Students | 13.3% | 6.6% | -6.7pp |
| Black/African American | — | 14.3% | — |
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