Performing Arts Community At Diego Rivera Learning Complex

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This school doesn't appear in UCOP's source-school records (it may send few or no applicants to UC). Its enrollment trend and similar-school comparison are still below.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)
511 (2018)444 (2026)
-13.1%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
118 (2018)116 (2026)
-1.7%

If this trend holds (-1.7%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~436 -8 $0
3 yr (2029) ~421 -23 $0
5 yr (2031) ~407 -37 $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.

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.

Mixed signal
Demand outpacing county is masking internal churn.

Enrollment growth is beating Los Angeles County (-1.7% vs. -8.2%), but 96 of 538 students didn't maintain continuous enrollment. Why are families leaving once enrolled? Chronic absenteeism is also at 42.5% (up +16.1 pts from 2016-17) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.

-1.7%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
-8.2%  Los Angeles County baseline
+6.5pp  gap vs. county
82.2%  retention (county median 87.3%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
82.2%
442 of 538 students

96 of 538 students who enrolled at Performing Arts Community At Diego Rivera Learning Complex this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (17.8% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Los Angeles County median
87.3% · school is in the 32nd percentile of 387 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 34th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (524) 82.8%
Hispanic / Latino (491) 83.9%
English learners (96) 72.9%
Students w/ disabilities (57) 78.9%
Black / African Am. (40) 62.5%

Nearest peer high schools

Diego Rivera Learning Complex Green Design Steam Academy 83.8% Russell Westbrook Why Not? High 79.1% Linda Esperanza Marquez High C School Of Social Justice 82.2% Thomas Jefferson High School 81.0% Wallis Annenberg High School 95.6%

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.

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.

Chronic absent
42.5%
219 of 515 students

Absenteeism is up 16.1 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Los Angeles County median
25.2% · school is worse than 79% of 381 HS
Statewide median
22.9%
Chronic absenteeism by year (raw %)

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).

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.

ELA — met or exceeded
n = 118
40.7%
incl. 14.4% exceeded
-17.3 pts vs. Los Angeles County median (58.0%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 122
13.1%
incl. 2.5% exceeded
-11.9 pts vs. Los Angeles County median (25.0%) · CA median 21.1% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 53.6%

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

Hispanic / Latino 93% +4.1
Black / African Am. 6% -4.1
White 1%

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 98%
English learners 14% -4.8
Socioeconomically disadv. 8% -2.4

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.

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.

Total revenue
$11112.5M
+8.9% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$24,124
460,633 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 51.7%
Local: 29.8%
Federal: 18.5%
Instruction share
53.5%
of current spending · $10,061/pupil
Long-term debt
$11908.4M
+4.3% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($M)
Total expenditure by year ($M)

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).

Performing Arts Community At Diego Rivera Learning Complex — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is down 2% (118→116 from 2018 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of +7%.
  • In business terms, this is market-share growth during a market contraction. Los Angeles County's senior population shrank 8% over the same window — Performing Arts Community At Diego Rivera Learning Complex only shrank 2%. So Performing Arts Community At Diego Rivera Learning Complex picked up about 6 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 (-1.7%/yr), enrollment projects to ~421 by 2029 — about 23 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

444 students (2026)
~421 projected (2029)
at -1.7%/yr

That's about 23 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
Performing Arts Community At Diego Rivera Learning Complex Public 444 -2%
Peer-group median 22.0% +7%
Diego Rivera Learning Complex Green Design Steam Academy Public 494 +9%
Russell Westbrook Why Not? High Public 429 +12%
Linda Esperanza Marquez High C School Of Social Justice Public 489 -6%
Thomas Jefferson High School Public 490 15.9% -2%
Wallis Annenberg High School Public 487 45.7% +13%
Oscar De LA Hoya Animo Charter Public 445 28.1% +1%
Alliance Cindy And Bill Simon Technology Academy High Public 463 +8%
Ednovate - South La College Prep Public 413 -32%
New Designs Charter School Public 467 8.4% +44%
Alliance Dr. Olga Mohan High Public 417 +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 →

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