Best High Schools in Los Angeles, CA (2025-26)

75 graded high schools are listed here rather than ranked, each for the reason given. Every one has its own page with its full SchoolGrade report.

Special-purpose schools (34)

Alternative, special-education and vocational schools serve a different mission and a different student body, so they are graded but not ranked against regular schools.

• D+ Boyle Heights Continuation, Los Angeles
• C+ Boyle Heights Sci Tech Engr And Math Magnet, Los Angeles
• F Central High, Los Angeles
• D+ Cheviot Hills Continuation, Los Angeles
• C+ City Of Angels, Los Angeles
• D- Crenshaw Sci Tech Engr Math And Med Magnet, Los Angeles
• A Downtown Business High, Los Angeles
• D- Esteban Torres East La Performing Arts Magnet, Los Angeles
• A- Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High, Los Angeles
• F Frida Kahlo High, Los Angeles
• D+ Harold Mcalister High Opportunity, Los Angeles
• D+ Harris Newmark Continuation, Los Angeles
• D+ Highland Park Continuation, Los Angeles
• D+ John Hope Continuation, Los Angeles
• B Kingdrew Medical Magnet High, Los Angeles
• B+ La County High School For The Arts, Los Angeles
• A Los Angeles Center For Enriched Studies, Los Angeles
• A- Math Science And Technology Magnet Academy At Roosevelt High, Los Angeles
• F Metropolitan Continuation, Los Angeles
• D+ Monterey Continuation, Los Angeles
• B+ Orthopaedic Hospital, Los Angeles
• D+ Pueblo De Los Angeles Continuation, Los Angeles
• D+ Ramona Opportunity High, Los Angeles
• D+ Richard A Alonzo Community Day, Los Angeles
• C Soc Just Leadership Acad At Esteban E Torres High 5, Los Angeles
• C Sotomayor Arts And Sciences Magnet, Los Angeles
• B+ Thirty Second Street Usc Performing Arts, Los Angeles
• D+ Thomas Riley High, Los Angeles
• F Tri C Community Day, Los Angeles
• C- University Pathways Medical Magnet Academy, Los Angeles
• D+ View Park Continuation, Los Angeles
• D+ Wesm Healthsports Medicine, Los Angeles
• D+ Whitman Continuation, Los Angeles
• D+ Whitney Young Continuation, Los Angeles

Closed schools (1)

NCES lists these schools as closed or inactive since their last graded year.

• D- Hilda L Solis Lrng Acad Sch Of Tech Business And Ed, Los Angeles

Not yet graded (40)

Our source data has no school-level proficiency results for these schools, so they carry no SchoolGrade yet.

• Alain Leroy Locke College Preparatory Academy, Los Angeles
• Alfonso B Perez Special Education Center, Los Angeles
• Alliance Cindy And Bill Simon Technology Academy High, Los Angeles
• Alliance Dr Olga Mohan High, Los Angeles
• Alliance Gertz Ressler Richard Merkin 6 12 Complex, Los Angeles
• Alliance Judy Ivie Burton Technology Academy High, Los Angeles
• Alliance Leichtman Levine Family Foundation Env Sci High, Los Angeles
• Alliance Marc And Eva Stern Math And Science, Los Angeles
• Alliance Morgan Mckinzie High, Los Angeles
• Alliance Ouchi Odonovan 6 12 Complex, Los Angeles
• Alliance Patti And Peter Neuwirth Leadership Academy, Los Angeles
• Alliance Piera Barbaglia Shaheen Health Services Academy, Los Angeles
• Alliance Renee And Meyer Luskin Academy High, Los Angeles
• Alliance Susan And Eric Smidt Technology High, Los Angeles
• Alliance Ted K Tajima High, Los Angeles
• Alliance Tennenbaum Family Technology High, Los Angeles
• Anahuacalmecac International Univ Prep Of N America, Los Angeles
• Animo Compton Charter, Los Angeles
• Animo Jackie Robinson High, Los Angeles
• Animo Pat Brown, Los Angeles
• Animo Ralph Bunche Charter High, Los Angeles
• Animo South Los Angeles Charter, Los Angeles
• Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy, Los Angeles
• Barack Obama Global Preparation Academy, Los Angeles
• Boys Academic Leadership Academy, Los Angeles
• Camino Nuevo High 2, Los Angeles
• Cds Secondary, Los Angeles
• Dorothy V Johnson Community Day, Los Angeles
• Ednovate South La College Prep, Los Angeles
• Ellington Duke High Continuation, Los Angeles
• James J Mcbride Special Education Center, Los Angeles
• Joseph Pomeroy Widney Career Prep And Transition Center, Los Angeles
• Los Angeles College Prep Academy, Los Angeles
• Marlton, Los Angeles
• Math And Science College Preparatory, Los Angeles
• Matrix For Success Academy, Los Angeles
• Oscar De La Hoya Animo Charter High, Los Angeles
• Phoenix Continuation, Los Angeles
• Siatech Academy South, Los Angeles
• Youth Opportunities Unlimited, Los Angeles

• Scope: public high schools in Los Angeles, CA, as grouped on its schools page; the California ranking covers the whole state.
• Order: SchoolGrade, then actual proficiency, then name; schools with the same grade and score share a rank.
• Ranked: regular public schools that NCES lists as open, not fully online, with at least 30 students. Others are listed with the reason.
• Tags: Magnet and Charter from the NCES school directory; K-12 marks schools serving every grade that are ranked with the high schools.
• Grades are the 2025-26 SchoolGrade model. How SchoolGrade works