American University Preparatory School

Overview

American University Preparatory School (AUP) is a private, for-profit, co-educational boarding and day college-preparatory high school in downtown Los Angeles, opened in 2014. Its academic focus areas include Global Studies and Citizenship, Digital Media Arts, Computer Science, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship. AUP is academically affiliated with the nearby Colburn School for some music students and partners with the Los Angeles Public Library's downtown branch.

Academics

As a private school, AUP doesn't participate in California's state assessment/dashboard reporting the way public schools do, so no proficiency data is available through public sources for this profile. Contact the school directly for any academic outcome data it publishes.

Neighborhood

The school is located in downtown Los Angeles, across from the World Trade Center building on Figueroa Street -- a dense commercial and civic core distinct from the residential Mid-Wilshire area where Los Angeles High School (also in this directory) is located.

Crime & safety

We did not independently source neighborhood-specific crime data for downtown Los Angeles for this profile. One source elsewhere in this directory (the Wilshire/Koreatown crime-index provider) separately listed "Central (Downtown LA)" as having the single highest reported-incident volume of any LA neighborhood it tracks (19,143 incidents), though that figure isn't normalized per resident and downtown LA's daytime commercial population differs substantially from its resident population -- a raw incident count for a commercial core isn't directly comparable to a residential neighborhood's per-capita rate.

Our calculated rating

We don't publish a single proprietary score, and for this school we're showing no rating at all: 0 of 3 possible components (academics, safety, resourcing) have data we consider reliable enough to use, for the reasons noted above. See our ratings methodology.

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