Visual and Performing Arts at Legacy High School C: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Visual and Performing Arts at Legacy High School C posts 33% meeting the standard and 13.5% exceeding it, against 36% and 15.8% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Grad rate | College readiness | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 45 | 14% | 33% | 91.2% | 45.8% | 36.4% | 1.6% |
| CA average · High School | 44 | 16% | 36% | 87.6% | 35.4% | 30.2% | 3.6% |
Visual and Performing Arts at Legacy High School C scores 45 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 48th 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 “33% proficient” and call it done. Visual and Performing Arts at Legacy High School C deserves a closer read. It sits at the 48th percentile of 2,160 California high schools — but the ranking is the least interesting thing on this page.
Visual and Performing Arts at Legacy High School C's low-income kids hit 52.8% 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 stayed near the 48th percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 33% meet the standard today, versus 42% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 64% | 30% | 46% | 39% | 52% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 19% | 7% | 5% | 9% | 14% |
The story this school is actually telling
Of 100 students here: 33 are proficient by 11th grade → 91 graduate → 46 pass an AP exam. The gaps between those bars are the questions to ask.
Visual and Performing Arts at Legacy High School C's most underrated number
52.8% 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 what the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.
- Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
- Ask whether extra support — tutoring, counseling, small groups — reaches kids across income lines, not just the students already ahead.
- 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.
How every group of students does here
At Visual and Performing Arts at Legacy High School C in South Gate, 52.8% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Visual and Performing Arts at Legacy High School C outperforms its district average for low-income students by 11.8 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (14.6% Math proficient); Hispanic students (53.1% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 39.5 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 91 students tested.
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
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.
$917 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
On the state's science test (CAST), 30% 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 56
Nearby Elementary 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.
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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 | 100 | 23% | 29% | 30% | 18% | 52% | +5 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 98 | 4% | 10% | 32% | 54% | 14% | −9 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 102 | 5% | 25% | 65% | 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 | 91 | 52.8% | +12 | +15 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 98 | 53.1% | +12 | +14 |
| Students with Disabilities | 16 | 12.5% | −4 | −4 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visual and Performing Arts at Legacy High School C ← | — | 45 | 13.5% | 33.1% | — | 1.6% |
| Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathema | 0 mi | 57 | 28.6% | 51.8% | — | 1.6% |
| Warren (Earl) High | 2.2 mi | 56 | 25.4% | 54.5% | — | 4.1% |
| Bell Senior High | 2.4 mi | 56 | 23.6% | 46.0% | — | 0.2% |
| California average | — | 44 | 15.8% | 35.7% | — | 3.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 49 | 55 | #916 | 10.1% | 41.6% | 17.6% | 1.1% | — |
| 2022 | 41 | 42 | #1207 | 5.8% | 18.5% | 36.8% | 0.6% | — |
| 2023 | 42 | 46 | #1160 | 6.6% | 25.8% | 33.4% | 0.8% | — |
| 2024 | 42 | 44 | #1191 | 7.2% | 23.9% | 35.7% | 1.1% | — |
| 2025 | 45 | 48 | #1116 | 13.5% | 33.1% | 36.4% | 1.6% | — |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 13.7% | 34.8% | +21.1pp |
| Male | 21.8% | 40.3% | +18.5pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 16.4% | 36.1% | +19.7pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 21.2% | 38.6% | +17.4pp |
| English Learners | 20.5% | 43.8% | +23.3pp |
| Foster Youth | 36.4% | — | — |
| Homeless | 30.0% | 47.6% | +17.6pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 16.9% | 36.9% | +20.0pp |
| All Students | 16.2% | 37.1% | +20.9pp |
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