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Warren (earl) High

· Los Angeles County · Downey Unified · Public

Public Los Angeles County 🏛 Downey Unified → CDS 1964451…
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📖11 AP courses 🎓96% 4-yr grad rate

📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • 📚 11 AP courses offered — Elite
  • ✅ Gifted & talented program
  • 🔢 5 calculus classes · 11 physics · 33 chemistry
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: 70th percentile nationally
  • 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 83th percentile by test-taker volume
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 96% (82th percentile nationally)

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

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How Warren (earl) High compares for families

Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.

  • StatewideAP rigor at the 70th percentile nationally with 11 AP courses.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Paramount High School, Downey High School, Mayfair High School and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

🎓 Academic rigor

AP + advanced-course offerings

Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth

70th percentile nationally

50th 90th ↑ this school
Less rigorMore rigorMost rigor
AP courses offered
11
Subject breadth not reported
Advanced math classes
21
5 calculus · 16 advanced
Lab science classes
44
11 physics · 33 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

83th percentile by test-taker volume

50th 90th
SAT/ACT test-takers
284
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test
Test-taking intensity
7.9
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?

82th percentile nationally

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
96%
Single-point estimate
4-year cohort size
888
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

High-poverty school

Title I Schoolwide eligible

79.8%
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)

≥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.

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 = 879
72.7%
incl. 35.0% exceeded
+14.7 pts above Los Angeles County median (58.0%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 868
36.3%
incl. 15.8% exceeded
+11.3 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 90%
White 4%
Black / African Am. 4%
Asian 1%
Two or more 1%

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 81% +9.8
Socioeconomically disadv. 13%
English learners 6% -2.5
Homeless 1% -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.

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
23.9%
885 of 3,710 students

Absenteeism is up 11.5 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 54% 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)
3,638 (2018)3,584 (2026)
-1.5%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
924 (2018)902 (2026)
-2.4%

If this trend holds (-0.2%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~3,577 -7 $0
3 yr (2029) ~3,564 -20 $0
5 yr (2031) ~3,551 -33 $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.

Warren (earl) High — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is down 2% (924→902 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -15%.
  • In business terms, this is market-share growth during a market contraction. Los Angeles County's senior population shrank 8% over the same window — Warren (earl) High only shrank 2%. So Warren (earl) High 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 (-0.2%/yr), enrollment projects to ~3564 by 2029 — about 20 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

3584 students (2026)
~3564 projected (2029)
at -0.2%/yr

That's about 20 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
Warren (earl) High Public 3584 -2%
Peer-group median 15.7% -15%
Paramount High School Public 3370 11.8% -27%
Downey High School Public 4165 17.9% +5%
Mayfair High School Public 2293 10.0% +1%
Bellflower High School Public 1959 15.0% -13%
Bell High School Public 2022 22.9% -37%
Norwalk High School Public 1962 11.0% -6%
Bell Gardens High Public 1912 16.3% -31%
James a Garfield High School Public 2212 28.1% -15%
El Rancho High School Public 1947 19.8% -16%
Santa Fe High School Public 1756 14.7% -24%

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
Outperforming the market — gaining relative share even as Los Angeles County contracts.

Warren (earl) High is shrinking (-2.4%) but Los Angeles County is shrinking faster (-8.2%), so Warren (earl) High is winning roughly 5.8 pp of relative market share. Combined with 91.4% 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 (23.9%, +11.5 pts since 2016-17) — a watch signal worth monitoring as a leading indicator.

-2.4%  school enrollment (2018–2026)
-8.2%  Los Angeles County baseline
+5.8pp  gap vs. county
91.4%  retention (county median 87.3%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2018
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
91.4%
3,450 of 3,776 students

326 of 3,776 students who enrolled at Warren (earl) High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (8.6% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Los Angeles County median
87.3% · school is in the 73rd percentile of 387 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 73rd percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Hispanic / Latino (3,356) 92.3%
Socio. disadvantaged (3,027) 91.2%
Students w/ disabilities (511) 88.6%
English learners (303) 84.2%
Black / African Am. (159) 80.5%
White (151) 83.4%

Nearest peer high schools

Paramount High School 88.7% Downey High School 91.4% Mayfair High School 91.1% Bellflower High School 87.3% Bell High School 90.6%

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.

District financial profile — Downey 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
$421.0M
+39.1% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$18,952
22,216 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 67.3%
Local: 21.1%
Federal: 11.7%
Instruction share
64.5%
of current spending · $9,619/pupil
Long-term debt
$261.0M
+157.3% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($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 Downey 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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