WESM Health/Sports Medicine: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
WESM Health/Sports Medicine posts 20% meeting the standard and 4.5% 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 | 41 | 5% | 20% | 97.6% | 48.4% | 45.1% | 4.3% |
| CA average · High School | 44 | 16% | 36% | 87.6% | 35.4% | 30.2% | 3.6% |
WESM Health/Sports Medicine scores 41 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 40th 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 “20% proficient” and call it done. WESM Health/Sports Medicine 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.
The seven-year arc
Slipped from the 52nd to the 40th percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 20% meet the standard today, versus 27% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 39% | 40% | 33% | 45% | 35% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 15% | 9% | 6% | 8% | 6% |
The story this school is actually telling
Of 100 students here: 20 are proficient by 11th grade → 98 graduate → 48 pass an AP exam. The gaps between those bars are the questions to ask.
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 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.
- Ask what a typical day looks like for a new student in the first few weeks.
How every group of students does here
At WESM Health/Sports Medicine in Los Angeles, 31.5% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. WESM Health/Sports Medicine trails its district average for low-income students by 9.4 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (5.6% Math proficient); Black students (36.7% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 30.9 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 108 students tested.
5 of 12 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
$2,063 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 589 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California high school (≈1450).
On the state's science test (CAST), 13% 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 63
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 77
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
A low score doesn't tell the whole story. Read: Your School Scored Low — Here's What That Actually Means
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 | 132 | 8% | 27% | 29% | 36% | 35% | −12 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 132 | 2% | 5% | 20% | 73% | 6% | −17 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 142 | 1% | 13% | 72% | 15% |
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 | 108 | 31.5% | −9 | −7 |
| Black/African American | 98 | 36.7% | +1 | +4 |
| Students with Disabilities | 25 | 4.0% | −12 | −13 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WESM Health/Sports Medicine ← | — | 41 | 4.5% | 20.5% | — | 4.3% |
| El Segundo High | 2.5 mi | 70 | 42.9% | 72.0% | — | 1.3% |
| Venice Senior High | 2.9 mi | 61 | 27.3% | 52.0% | — | 0.1% |
| WISH Academy High | 0.2 mi | 58 | 26.4% | 50.2% | — | 0.8% |
| California average | — | 44 | 15.8% | 35.7% | — | 3.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 47 | 52 | #990 | 9.1% | 27.2% | 30.8% | 5.2% | — |
| 2022 | 45 | 55 | #943 | 7.0% | 24.5% | 42.8% | 0.8% | — |
| 2023 | 44 | 51 | #1053 | 7.6% | 19.5% | 41.9% | 0.9% | — |
| 2024 | 46 | 56 | #950 | 8.6% | 26.7% | 40.7% | 0.5% | — |
| 2025 | 41 | 40 | #1294 | 4.5% | 20.5% | 45.1% | 4.3% | — |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 33.2% | 52.0% | +18.8pp |
| Male | 29.2% | 40.6% | +11.4pp |
| Asian | 18.2% | — | — |
| Black/African American | 30.5% | 48.5% | +18.0pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 31.9% | 40.8% | +8.9pp |
| Two or More Races | 54.5% | 42.3% | -12.2pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 43.4% | 49.5% | +6.1pp |
| English Learners | 33.3% | 20.0% | -13.3pp |
| Homeless | 23.1% | 36.8% | +13.7pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 33.4% | 48.6% | +15.2pp |
| All Students | 31.1% | 46.6% | +15.5pp |
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