Los Angeles High School

Overview

Los Angeles High School, founded in 1873, is the oldest public high school in Southern California and part of the Los Angeles Unified School District. It's a magnet school offering concurrent enrollment programs with several nearby community colleges, and holds accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

Academics

No independently verified California state assessment data (via the California School Dashboard) was located for this profile; check the California Department of Education's dashboard directly for current school-level results.

Neighborhood

The school sits in the Mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles, near Koreatown -- a dense, diverse Central LA neighborhood.

Crime & safety

Sources on the immediate Koreatown/Mid-Wilshire area disagree by a wide margin, similar to the pattern seen for other large cities in this directory. One FBI-UCR-based provider puts the neighborhood's overall crime rate 62% above the national average with a safety grade of C-; a separate source citing LAPD data directly describes the same general area as having a 95/100 "low crime" safety index and ranking near the bottom for reported incident volume among nearby LA neighborhoods. A third source describes crime here as "on par with other parts of LA" and trending downward in recent years.

Our calculated rating

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