Thomas Jefferson Senior High

Thomas Jefferson Senior High School is a public secondary school located in South Central Los Angeles. It was founded back in 1916 and has been serving classes in 9th through 12th grade classes since, under a single track school calendar. Part of Local District 5 of the Los Angeles Unified School District, Jefferson High is being reorganized as a traditional calendar school, composed of four Small Learning Communities (SLCs). The goal of each SLC is to offer individualized attention to the students.

Rankings

From the 2006 California Academic Performance Index (API) Base report, the school has an API score of 451, which corresponds to a state rank of 1 (1 is the lowest, 10 is the highest. 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

80% of the teachers at Jefferson High have full teaching credentials while 14% have emergency credentials. They also average 10 years in teaching experience with 10 average years teaching in the district. Only 4% of their faculty are first year teachers... the school's average class size is 24 for grade 9, 32 for grade 10, 26 for grade 11, and 27 for grade 12.

The school's Students per paraprofessional staff ratio is 83, the Students per office/clerical staff ratio is 136, while the Students per other classified staff ratio is 103... 91% of the student body are Hispanic or Latino, 8% are African American, and less than 1% are Asian and White.