Garfield Senior High

Garfield Senior High School is a public secondary school located East Los Angeles, an unincorporated section of Los Angeles County, California. Opened in 1925, Garfield Senior High has continued to offer high school education for students in 9th through 12th grade levels, following a three-track school calendar. The school is part of Local District 5 of the Los Angeles Unified School District. The school serves the East Los Angeles area and the LAUSD portion of Monterey Park. The school colors are crimson, white, and blue. The school mascot is the bulldog.

Rankings

From the 2006 California Academic Performance Index (API) Base report, the school has an API score of 528 (The API Score is a number between 200 and 1000 that reflects a school’s or school district’s performance on statewide student assessments administered in 2006).

School Statistics

90% of Garfield High's teachers have full teaching credentials while 4% have emergency credentials. They also norm an average of 13 year teaching experience and 12 average years teaching in the district. Only 5% of the Garfield faculty are first year teachers...the school's average class size is 27 for grade 9, 31 for grade 10, and 29 for both grades 11 and 12...the student-staff ratio is 67 Students per paraprofessional staff, 186 Students per office/clerical staff, and 146 Students per other classified staff.

The bulk of Garfield's students are of Hispanic or Latino descent (99%), while the rest are White, African American, Asian, and American Indian or Alaska Native.