Summary:
La Puente High is a public high school serving 960 students in grades 9-12 in the Hacienda la Puente Unified School District, which is ranked 789 out of 1,560 districts in California and has a 2-star rating from SchoolDigger.
Academically, La Puente High faces significant challenges, with standardized test scores that lag behind both the district and state averages. For example, in the 2022-2023 school year, only 38.86% of 11th-grade students were proficient or better in English Language Arts/Literacy, compared to 54.48% for the district and 55.41% for the state. In Mathematics, only 11.98% of 11th-grade students were proficient or better, compared to 28.68% for the district and 27.36% for the state. The school's performance on the California Science Test (CAST) also lags behind, with only 16.59% of 11th-grade students being proficient or better, compared to 30.08% for the district and 31.67% for the state. However, the school's four-year graduation rate is relatively high, ranging from 94.0% to 99.1% over the past five years, which is comparable to or higher than the nearby Los Altos High, Glen A. Wilson High, and William Workman High.
Other areas of concern for La Puente High include a significant increase in chronic absenteeism, rising from 12.5% in 2018-2019 to 28.4% in 2022-2023, which is higher than the nearby schools. Additionally, the school has a high percentage of students from low-socioeconomic backgrounds, with 87.29% of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch in the 2022-2023 school year, significantly higher than the nearby schools, which range from 63.91% to 88.8%. While the school performs relatively well for English Language Learner students, it struggles with the performance of female students, special education students, and disabled students, as well as Hispanic students and low-socioeconomic status students, compared to the state.
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Detail:
Public 9-12
District:
Hacienda la Puente Unified
SchoolDigger Rank:
1383rd of 2,348 California High Schools
Feeder schools for La Puente High:
Student/teacher ratio: 20.3
Number of students: 960
Racial breakdown:
Hispanic:
95.0%
Asian:
2.6%
White:
0.7%
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African American:
0.7%
Pacific Islander:
0.4%
Two or more races:
0.3%
American Indian:
0.1%
Not Specified:
0.1%
Free/discounted lunch recipients: 87.3%
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