Public school / High
Daniel Pearl Journalism & Communications Magnet
Lake Balboa, California
- NCES ID
- 062271012525
- District
- Los Angeles Unified
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
Daniel Pearl Journalism & Communications Magnet is a public high school in Lake Balboa, California, run by Los Angeles Unified. It enrols 224 students — the 75369th largest of 10,418 public schools in California.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
224
Teachers
15.0
Students per teacher
14.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
55.8%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Los Angeles Unified
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Grover Cleveland Charter High2,781 students
- 2San Pedro Senior High2,582 students
- 3North Hollywood Senior High2,489 students
- 4Phineas Banning Senior High2,486 students
- 5Bell Senior High2,351 students
- 6Van Nuys Senior High2,323 students
- 7Alexander Hamilton Senior High2,259 students
- 8James A. Garfield Senior High2,247 students
- Enrollment−52.7%
- Teachers−28.6%
- Students per teacher−32.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−17.8%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory