Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies: Suspensions are nearly zero. But this year's 8th graders test below its 6th graders.
Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies has real strengths and one number that complicates them. Most rating sites show you one or the other. Both belong on the same page.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 55 | 34% | 60% | -8.4 | 12.1% | 0.3% |
| CA average · Middle School | 43 | 17% | 39% | +1.5 | 18.5% | 3.7% |
Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies scores 55 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 80th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🤝 Culture First — Ask whether the low absenteeism and suspension numbers come from what the school does or from the community it serves — both can produce the same numbers, and only a visit tells you which.
Most rating sites would stop at “60% proficient” and call it done. Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies deserves a closer read. The school sits in Los Angeles, where more than half of students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies's low-income kids hit 61.0% 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 80th-percentile line every tested year since 2019.
Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 60% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 63% | 67% | 66% | 70% | 69% |
| Grade 7 | 72% | 63% | 77% | 68% | 73% |
| Grade 8 | 64% | 70% | 63% | 71% | 63% |
| Grade 11 | 67% | 74% | 68% | 65% | 77% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 57% | 51% | 52% | 55% | 53% |
| Grade 7 | 65% | 46% | 55% | 52% | 60% |
| Grade 8 | 47% | 39% | 34% | 49% | 42% |
| Grade 11 | 72% | 52% | 50% | 49% | 47% |
The story this school is actually telling
suspension rate — versus 3.7% statewide.
proficiency runs 61% in this year's grade 6 against 53% in its grade 8. The state average falls by −0.5pp over the same span.
The school, grade by grade
ELA · CAASPP 2024–25Different students, same year — each bar is one grade's proficiency mix.
The honest read: the share exceeding falls 4.6pp across grades; the floor slips 5.9pp. The state average falls 0.5pp over the same span. The school's 8th graders aren't posting a wider lead than its 6th graders. One question worth asking on a tour: are the strongest students being pushed, or coasting? A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies's most underrated number
61.0% 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 6 things our score weighs
Ask the principal what changes between grade 6 and grade 8. Ask who teaches the older grades, and what the school does when a child starts falling behind.
- Ask what changes between grade 6 and grade 8 here, and who teaches the older kids.
- 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 Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies in Los Angeles, 61.0% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies outperforms its district average for low-income students by 20.1 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (35.5% Math proficient); Hispanic students (55.4% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 32.5 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 439 students tested.
5 of 15 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Change in proficiency from the lowest tested grade — which groups gain ground the longer they stay. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Low-income student ELA proficiency falls by 9.1pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: -0.3pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Grades 9–12 students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (14.2% vs 5.6%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.
Where the path goes
Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies serves grades 6-12 — students can complete middle and high school here, without a separate middle-to-high transition.
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.
$1,454 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 1,357 students, this school is well above the typical California middle school (≈860).
On the state's science test (CAST), 52% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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3 within ~3 mi · avg 55
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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 6 | 196 | 38% | 31% | 20% | 10% | 69% | +23 |
| Grade 7 | 188 | 36% | 37% | 17% | 10% | 73% | +25 |
| Grade 8 | 178 | 34% | 30% | 20% | 17% | 63% | +17 |
| Grade 11 | 203 | 43% | 34% | 14% | 9% | 77% | +30 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 196 | 33% | 20% | 16% | 31% | 53% | +18 |
| Grade 7 | 188 | 36% | 24% | 21% | 19% | 60% | +26 |
| Grade 8 | 178 | 26% | 16% | 29% | 29% | 42% | +10 |
| Grade 11 | 203 | 18% | 30% | 20% | 33% | 47% | +24 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 381 | 21% | 32% | 43% | 5% |
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 | 439 | 61.0% | +20 | +23 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 258 | 55.4% | +14 | +17 |
| White | 216 | 88.0% | +19 | +26 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies ← | — | 55 | 33.8% | 60.2% | −8.4 | 0.3% |
| Beverly Vista Middle | 2 mi | 60 | 36.0% | 63.8% | +2.3 | 2.3% |
| John Burroughs Middle | 2.4 mi | 54 | 28.8% | 55.9% | −1.6 | 1.6% |
| Culver City Middle | 3 mi | 52 | 28.4% | 54.3% | −4.2 | 2.1% |
| California average | — | 43 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5 | 3.7% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 51 | 75 | #505 | 31.1% | 61.1% | 14.1% | 1.2% | -4.4pp |
| 2022 | 50 | 77 | #496 | 25.9% | 55.9% | 17.8% | 0.3% | -4.3pp |
| 2023 | 50 | 71 | #632 | 27.3% | 57.8% | 16.2% | 0.4% | -10.4pp |
| 2024 | 60 | 87 | #292 | 33.1% | 60.9% | 13.3% | 0.2% | -2.7pp |
| 2025 | 55 | 80 | #445 | 33.8% | 60.2% | 12.1% | 0.3% | -8.4pp |
- — Scored here as a middle school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 14.5% | 14.5% | +0.0pp |
| Male | 13.7% | 9.6% | -4.1pp |
| Asian | 5.2% | 8.3% | +3.1pp |
| Black/African American | 18.8% | 16.3% | -2.5pp |
| White | 10.0% | — | — |
| Hispanic/Latino | 16.6% | 12.7% | -3.9pp |
| American Indian/Alaska Native | 18.2% | — | — |
| Two or More Races | 9.1% | 8.4% | -0.7pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 22.2% | 19.2% | -3.0pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 16.9% | 15.4% | -1.5pp |
| All Students | 14.1% | 11.9% | -2.2pp |
| English Learners | — | 21.4% | — |
| Homeless | — | 16.7% | — |
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