At $35,439 per pupil, Los Angeles College Prep Academy District ranks #53 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Los Angeles College Prep Academy District operates 1 public schools serving 41 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Los Angeles County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $35,439 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 188 of 1880 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 8.2% local, 49.1% state, and 42.8% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 41:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 61.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Use the school table below to drill into any individual campus for its own demographic and resource profile.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses held roughly steady from 2022-23 to 2023-24 (41 to 41 students, +0%), per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $1,480,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 37.7% went to instruction, 58.9% to support services, and 1.8% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Los Angeles College Prep Academy accounts for 100.0% of all Los Angeles College Prep Academy District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Los Angeles College Prep Academy District a distant remainder — means Los Angeles College Prep Academy District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: high. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Los Angeles College Prep Academy District reports 78.0% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Los Angeles College Prep Academy District student-counselor ratio is 41:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Los Angeles College Prep Academy District chronic absenteeism rate is 61.0% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Comparisons are relative to Los Angeles College Prep Academy District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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