Linda Esperanza Marquez High B LIBRA Academy: This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.
Linda Esperanza Marquez High B LIBRA Academy posts 43% meeting the standard against 36% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Grad rate | College readiness | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 54 | 16% | 43% | 96.1% | 62.2% | 19.5% | 0.8% |
| CA average · High School | 44 | 16% | 36% | 87.6% | 35.4% | 30.2% | 3.6% |
Linda Esperanza Marquez High B LIBRA Academy scores 54 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 73rd 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 “43% proficient” and call it done. Linda Esperanza Marquez High B LIBRA Academy deserves a closer read. The school sits in Huntington Park, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Linda Esperanza Marquez High B LIBRA Academy's low-income kids hit 65.0% 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
Has held the 73rd-percentile line every tested year since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 43% meet the standard today, versus 51% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 64% | 67% | 60% | 68% | 66% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 39% | 15% | 16% | 16% | 20% |
The story this school is actually telling
Of 100 students here: 43 are proficient by 11th grade → 96 graduate → 62 pass an AP exam. The gaps between those bars are the questions to ask.
Linda Esperanza Marquez High B LIBRA Academy's most underrated number
65.0% 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 7 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 Linda Esperanza Marquez High B LIBRA Academy in Huntington Park, 65.0% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Linda Esperanza Marquez High B LIBRA Academy outperforms its district average for low-income students by 24.0 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (19.1% Math proficient); Hispanic students (66.0% ELA proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 137 students tested.
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.
$1,115 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 615 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California high school (≈1450).
On the state's science test (CAST), 34% 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 55
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 55
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 | 145 | 28% | 38% | 21% | 12% | 66% | +19 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 144 | 4% | 16% | 19% | 60% | 20% | −3 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 147 | 2% | 32% | 62% | 4% |
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 | 137 | 65.0% | +24 | +27 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 144 | 66.0% | +25 | +27 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linda Esperanza Marquez High B LIBRA Academy ← | — | 54 | 16.2% | 43.2% | — | 0.8% |
| Linda Esperanza Marquez High A Huntington Park Ins | 0 mi | 58 | 16.6% | 52.0% | — | 0.4% |
| Alliance Margaret M. Bloomfield Technology Academy | 1 mi | 56 | 23.4% | 54.1% | — | 2.0% |
| Linda Esperanza Marquez High C School of Social Ju | 0 mi | 51 | 16.3% | 38.3% | — | 0.6% |
| California average | — | 44 | 15.8% | 35.7% | — | 3.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 59 | 79 | #432 | 20.4% | 51.1% | 16.7% | 0.4% | — |
| 2022 | 53 | 75 | #525 | 15.1% | 40.7% | 34.2% | 1.0% | — |
| 2023 | 51 | 71 | #623 | 11.7% | 38.0% | 27.0% | 0.7% | — |
| 2024 | 55 | 77 | #503 | 18.3% | 42.1% | 20.8% | 0.6% | — |
| 2025 | 54 | 73 | #591 | 16.2% | 43.2% | 19.5% | 0.8% | — |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 17.9% | 20.2% | +2.3pp |
| Male | 14.1% | 16.2% | +2.1pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 15.6% | 18.2% | +2.6pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 16.9% | 22.0% | +5.1pp |
| English Learners | 33.3% | 35.6% | +2.3pp |
| Homeless | 37.5% | — | — |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 16.6% | 18.5% | +1.9pp |
| All Students | 15.9% | 18.2% | +2.3pp |
| Military-Connected | — | 14.3% | — |
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