Early College Academy-La Trade Tech College
· Los Angeles County · Los Angeles Unified · Public
📄 Shareable scorecard →📋 At a glance
- 📚 2 AP courses offered — Moderate
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 37% of US high schools
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 95% (75th percentile nationally)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Early College Academy-La Trade Tech College compares for families
Above-average college outcomes statewide.
- ▸ Statewide31.2% UC Reach — 13.2 points above the California median of 18.0%. Ahead of 75% of California high schools.
- ▸ Locally🎯 Top 10% in California on Attendance (lowest chronic absenteeism) — plus 1 more top-rank.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsBeats the peer median (31.2% UC Reach vs 15.5% median) across the 5 most similar nearby schools.
🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Moderate — some AP / advanced course access
Bottom 37% of US high schools
✅ Gifted/talented program
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
75th percentile nationally
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
High-poverty school
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Early College Academy-La Trade Tech College sent 80 applications to the six most selective University of California campuses and 18.8% were admitted, producing a UC Reach of 31.2% — 13.2 percentage points above the California median of 18.0%, higher than 75% of California high schools. The school produces 16.7 UCLA + UC Berkeley admits per 100 seniors.
+15.8 pp above peer median (15.5%) · Ranked #1 of 3 similar schools
18.0%
49.0%
31.2%
Higher than 75% of California high schools (978 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Early College Academy-La Trade Tech College's UC Reach of 31.2% is above the California median (18.0%). The top 10% of CA schools achieve 49.0% or higher.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 85.0% — a gap of 54 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Early College Academy-La Trade Tech College's UC Reach is higher than 75% of California high schools (978 ranked).
Campus Breakdown — 2024
| Campus | Applicants | Admits | Enrollees | Admit Rate | UC Reach | Yield | Avg GPA (App) | Avg GPA (Adm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley → Elite | 12 | 5 | 3 | 41.7% | 10.4% | 60.0% | — | —† |
| UCLA → Elite | 23 | 3 | —† | 13.0% | 6.2% | — | — | —† |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 10 | 3 | —† | 30.0% | 6.2% | — | — | —† |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 8 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | — | —† |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 21 | 4 | —† | 19.0% | 8.3% | — | — | —† |
| UC Davis → | 6 | —† | —† | —† | —† | — | — | —† |
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 down 40.9 pp since 2016-17. Engagement improving — a positive trajectory worth understanding and reinforcing.
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 (+4.3%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~273 | +11 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~297 | +35 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~323 | +61 | $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.
Early College Academy-La Trade Tech College — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Early College Academy-La Trade Tech College sits near the top of its similar-school group (ranked #1 of 3): 31% vs. a peer median of 16%.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is down 27% (95→69 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -10%.
- ▸Enrollment has been growing (+4.3%/yr); projects to ~297 by 2029.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early College Academy-La Trade Tech College | Public | 262 | 31.2% | -27% |
| Peer-group median | 15.5% | -10% | ||
| Matrix For Success Academy | Public | 265 | — | +780% |
| Joseph Pomeroy Widney Career Preparatory And Transition Center | Public | 272 | — | -20% |
| Alliance Susan And Eric Smidt Technology High | Public | 246 | — | -44% |
| Los Angeles Academy Of Arts And Enterprise | Public | 193 | — | -40% |
| Barack Obama Global Preparation Academy | Public | 354 | — | — |
| Alliance Dr. Olga Mohan High | Public | 417 | — | +6% |
| Los Angeles Hs of the Arts | Public | 417 | 22.6% | -10% |
| Collegiate Charter High School Of Los Angeles | Public | 161 | — | -3% |
| Central High | Public | 153 | — | -71% |
| New Designs Charter School | Public | 467 | 8.4% | +44% |
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.
Early College Academy-La Trade Tech College's enrollment is shrinking 3.3× the county rate (school -27.4% vs. county -8.2%). Stability of 97.8% means every family you keep is one fewer; the leverage is at recruitment, not retention. This is the case the high stability number alone would hide.
6 of 276 students who enrolled at Early College Academy-La Trade Tech College this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (2.2% 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).