Los Angeles Leadership Primary Academy: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Los Angeles Leadership Primary Academy posts 33% meeting the standard and 10.2% exceeding it, against 43% and 21.3% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
Los Angeles Leadership Primary Academy scores 38 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 37th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How we score →
Most rating sites would stop at “33% proficient” and call it done. Los Angeles Leadership Primary Academy 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.
As a charter, Los Angeles Leadership Primary Academy enrolls by application, not address — the score reads the same, the enrollment path doesn't.
The story this school is actually telling
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 15.2pp across grades; the floor slips 15.1pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
The 5 things our score weighs
Ask what the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.
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.
Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 70
Nearby Middle Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 41
Nearby High Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 65
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
The community around it
Student demographics
3 more gaps by subject
Subgroups with fewer than 15 students are excluded for privacy. Gaps of less than 3 percentage points are not shown.
Weighted average across tested grades. Subgroups with fewer than 15 students excluded. Data: CDE CAASPP 2024-25.
Subgroup Growth by Grade
Low-income student ELA proficiency falls by 15.1pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.5pp.
Subgroups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Funding Breakdown
Neighborhood Context
Whole Child
Source: CDE SARC, 2024-25
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For the data nerdsEvery number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 40 | 25% | 18% | 18% | 40% | 43% | −1 |
| Grade 4 | 39 | 5% | 18% | 28% | 49% | 23% | −22 |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 10% | 18% | 33% | 39% | 27% | −20 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 40 | 13% | 43% | 23% | 23% | 55% | +9 |
| Grade 4 | 39 | 3% | 28% | 44% | 26% | 31% | −11 |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 6% | 16% | 33% | 45% | 22% | −14 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 51 | 2% | 18% | 53% | 27% |
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 | 114 | 28.1% | −13 | −10 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 125 | 29.6% | −11 | −9 |
| English Learners | 52 | 17.3% | +10 | +7 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles Leadership Primary Academy ← | — | 38 | 10.2% | 33.4% | −24.2 | 0.2% |
| Renaissance Arts Academy | 2.7 mi | 76 | 59.6% | 86.5% | −0.9 | 0.2% |
| Elysian Heights ES Arts Magnet | 2.3 mi | 68 | 35.2% | 61.3% | −6.0 | 0.1% |
| Richard Riordan Primary Center | 2.5 mi | 67 | 41.0% | 69.4% | — | 0.6% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
- — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 10 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.