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Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy
· Los Angeles County · Los Angeles Unified · Public
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Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy compares for families
What families should know about Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Stella High Charter Academy, Animo South Los Angeles Charter, Mervyn M Dymally High School and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
SBAC academic outcomes — grade 11, 2025
Share of grade-11 students meeting or exceeding the California standard on Smarter Balanced ELA and Math. This is the academic-readiness signal that pairs with UC Reach (post-grad outcomes), stability (retention), and absenteeism (engagement). Note: statewide median Math is only ~20% — a school at 20% isn't an outlier; one at 45%+ genuinely is.
Source: California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) Smarter Balanced research files. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥30 tested students.
Student composition — 2025-26
HS grades 9–12 racial/ethnic composition and program subgroups, from CDE Census Day Enrollment. Two-year shift shown when ≥1 pt — surfaces how the community served has changed since 2023-24.
Race / ethnicity
Program subgroups
Source: California Department of Education, Census Day Enrollment 2025-26 (HS grades 9–12). Δ shown when shift is ≥1 pt since 2023-24. Categories below 0.5% omitted.
Chronic absenteeism — 2024-25
Share of students missing 10% or more of expected attendance — the leading indicator that often precedes the demand decline shown above. Families disengaging tend to raise absenteeism first, then formally leave. Basis: grades 9–12.
Absenteeism is up 10.9 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.
Source: California Department of Education, Chronic Absenteeism 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 eligible students. CDE didn't publish a usable 2019-20 file (COVID).
Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (-0.6%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~546 | -4 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~540 | -10 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~533 | -17 | $0 |
Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423/ADA). Edit the figure to match your school.
Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 4% (129→124 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of +5%.
- ▸In business terms, this is market-share growth during a market contraction. Los Angeles County's senior population shrank 8% over the same window — Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy only shrank 4%. So Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy picked up about 4 percentage points of relative share — families chose it over the alternatives even as the overall pool got smaller. That's overperforming the market in a shrinking market.
- ▸At its recent rate (-0.6%/yr), enrollment projects to ~540 by 2029 — about 10 fewer students than today.
Enrollment projection
That's about 10 fewer students. At per-student funding of $ per student, that's roughly $0 in annual state funding at risk.
Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423 per ADA) — adjust to your district's actual per-pupil figure. Projection extrapolates the recent annual rate — not a forecast of intent.
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy | Public | 550 | — | -4% |
| Peer-group median | 16.0% | +5% | ||
| Stella High Charter Academy | Public | 567 | 16.0% | +2% |
| Animo South Los Angeles Charter | Public | 575 | — | +4% |
| Mervyn M Dymally High School | Public | 580 | 8.3% | -2% |
| Compton Early College High Sch | Public | 539 | 54.9% | +85% |
| Alliance Judy Ivie Burton Technology Academy High | Public | 616 | — | +3% |
| Alliance Margaret M. Bloomfield Technology Academy High | Public | 590 | — | +20% |
| Alliance Cindy And Bill Simon Technology Academy High | Public | 463 | — | +8% |
| Hawthorne Math And Science Academy | Public | 573 | — | -5% |
| Diego Rivera Learning Complex Green Design Steam Academy | Public | 494 | — | +9% |
| Linda Esperanza Marquez High B Libra Academy | Public | 614 | — | +6% |
UC Reach = top-6 UC admits ÷ senior class (can exceed 100% when students are admitted to multiple campuses). Enrollment trend = first-to-latest grade-12 change on file. Similar schools matched on proximity, size, type. Methodology →
Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25
Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the Los Angeles County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy is shrinking (-3.9%) but Los Angeles County is shrinking faster (-8.2%), so Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy is winning roughly 4.3 pp of relative market share. Combined with 94.7% stability (county median 87.3%), this reflects a school that families actively chose during a market contraction. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working. Chronic absenteeism is rising (25.7%, +10.9 pts since 2016-17) — a watch signal worth monitoring as a leading indicator.
30 of 562 students who enrolled at Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (5.3% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.
Stability by student group
Nearest peer high schools
Source: California Department of Education, Stability Rate 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 cumulative enrollees so by-design-high-churn continuation schools don't dominate the bottom of the distribution. Cumulative enrollment counts every student on the rolls during the year, so it can exceed peak-day enrollment.
District financial profile — Los Angeles Unified (FY2020)
From 4 years of NCES F-33 filings (the federally-mandated district finance survey). Public schools don't have their own books — the district does. These figures show the financial scale, revenue dependence, instruction-vs-overhead mix, and long-term debt that shape what a school can sustain.
Local: 29.8%
Federal: 18.5%
Source: NCES F-33 Annual Survey of School System Finances (Urban Institute Education Data API). Latest year currently published: FY2020. F-33 is a district-level federal filing — it reflects the Los Angeles Unified as a whole, not this individual school's books. Revenue mix shows where the district's dollars come from (state aid dominates in CA via LCFF). Instruction share is current expenditure on instruction ÷ total current expenditure (national benchmark ~60%). Long-term debt is end-of-year outstanding (mostly facilities bonds).