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Renaissance High School For The Arts

· Los Angeles County · Long Beach Unified · Public

Public Los Angeles County 🏛 Long Beach Unified → CDS 1964725…
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📖9 AP courses 🎓97% 4-yr grad rate

📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • 📚 9 AP courses offered — Strong
  • ✅ Gifted & talented program
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: 58th percentile nationally
  • 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 15% by test-taker volume
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 97% (90th percentile nationally)

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Renaissance High School For The Arts compares for families

Solid mid-tier academic profile.

  • StatewideAP rigor at the 58th percentile nationally with 9 AP courses.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Richard D Browning High School, Magnolia Science Academy 3, Dr. Richard A. Vladovic Harbor Teacher Preparation Academy and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

🎓 Academic rigor

AP + advanced-course offerings

Strong — solid AP program + advanced courses

58th percentile nationally

50th 90th ↑ this school
Less rigorMore rigorMost rigor
AP courses offered
9
Subject breadth not reported
Advanced math classes
5
0 calculus · 5 advanced
Lab science classes
8
0 physics · 8 chemistry
Other rigor signals
✅ 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 · 2020-21

Bottom 15% by test-taker volume

50th 90th
SAT/ACT test-takers
11
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test
Test-taking intensity
2.8
takers per 100 students in grades 9-12
Compared against
18,426
US high schools reporting SAT/ACT participation

Source: 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?

90th percentile nationally

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
97%
Range: 95–100%
4-year cohort size
105
Students in the 9th-grade entry class tracked over 4 years
Compared against
17,988
US high schools reporting 4-year ACGR

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

Title I Schoolwide eligible

≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program

56.8%
FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).
0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.

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.

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 = 92
67.4%
incl. 35.9% exceeded
+9.4 pts above Los Angeles County median (58.0%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 91
34.1%
incl. 16.5% exceeded
+9.1 pts above 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 54% -2.3
Black / African Am. 18%
White 16%
Two or more 7% +1.3
Filipino 2%
Asian 2%
American Indian 1%

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 55% -8.1
Socioeconomically disadv. 19% +2.8

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.

Chronic absent
22.2%
89 of 401 students

Absenteeism is up 20.3 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 better than 58% 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).

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)
406 (2018)404 (2026)
-0.5%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
79 (2018)95 (2026)
+20.3%

If this trend holds (-0.1%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~404 +0 $0
3 yr (2029) ~403 -1 $0
5 yr (2031) ~403 -1 $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.

Renaissance High School For The Arts — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is up 20% (79→95 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of +0%.
  • At its recent rate (-0.1%/yr), enrollment projects to ~403 by 2029 — about 1 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

404 students (2026)
~403 projected (2029)
at -0.1%/yr

That's about 1 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
Renaissance High School For The Arts Public 404 +20%
Peer-group median 28.6% +0%
Richard D Browning High School Public 336 -14%
Magnolia Science Academy 3 Public 395 6.0% +26%
Dr. Richard A. Vladovic Harbor Teacher Preparation Academy Public 461 +24%
Educational Partnership Hs Public 311 -65%
Academy of Medical Arts at Carson Public 466 28.6% +4%
Academies Of Education And Empowerment At Carson High Public 476 -21%
Rancho Dominguez Prep School Public 594 18.8% -8%
Eunice Sato Academy Of Math & Science Public 576 +15%
Abraham Lincoln High School Public 501 110.0% -4%
Compton Early College High Sch Public 539 54.9% +85%

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.

Healthy
Best in class — winning on demand and retention.

Renaissance High School For The Arts outperformed Los Angeles County on enrollment (school +20.3% vs. county -8.2%) AND maintains 89.6% stability. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working. Chronic absenteeism is rising (22.2%, +20.3 pts since 2016-17) — a watch signal worth monitoring as a leading indicator.

+20.3%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
-8.2%  Los Angeles County baseline
+28.5pp  gap vs. county
89.6%  retention (county median 87.3%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
89.6%
372 of 415 students

43 of 415 students who enrolled at Renaissance High School For The Arts this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (10.4% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Los Angeles County median
87.3% · school is in the 61st percentile of 387 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 63rd percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (252) 88.5%
Hispanic / Latino (235) 88.5%
Black / African Am. (75) 85.3%
Students w/ disabilities (71) 91.5%
White (69) 95.7%
Two or more races (24) 95.8%

Nearest peer high schools

Richard D Browning High School 77.8% Magnolia Science Academy 3 89.5% Dr. Richard A. Vladovic Harbor Teacher Preparation Academy 99.3% Educational Partnership Hs 37.1% Academy of Medical Arts at Carson 91.8%

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 — Long Beach 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
$1266.5M
+8.2% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$18,245
69,413 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 62.0%
Local: 24.9%
Federal: 13.2%
Instruction share
61.9%
of current spending · $8,669/pupil
Long-term debt
$1410.6M
+13.9% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Long Beach 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).

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