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Downtown Business High School

Public | 8-12 | 1050 students

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	Ethnicity	This school	State average
	Hispanic or Latino	71%	49%
African American	10%	7%
Asian	10%	8%
Filipino	8%	3%
White	2%	28%
Multiple or No Response	1%	3%
American Indian or Alaska Native	0%	1%
Pacific Islander	0%	1%

	This school	District average	State average
English language learners ¹	10%	N/A	24%
Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch program ²	71%	N/A	52%

	Language	This school	State average
	Spanish	89%	85%
Khmer (Cambodian)	4%	0%
Chaozhou (Chiuchow)	3%	0%
Cantonese	2%	2%
Filipino (Pilipino or Tagalog)	1%	1%
Ilocano	1%	0%
Vietnamese	1%	2%

	This school	District average	State average
Average years teaching in district	10	N/A	11
Average years teaching	11	N/A	13

	This school	District average	State average
Full credential	96%	N/A	96%
Emergency credential or waiver	0%	N/A	2%

Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math (STEM)

Specific academic themes or areas of focus

Science
Technology

Arts & music

Media arts	Video / Film production
Clubs	Yearbook

Language learning

Foreign languages taught	Chinese (Mandarin) French Spanish
Foreign languages spoken by staff	Chinese (Cantonese) Chinese (Mandarin) French German Korean Spanish Tagalog

Gifted & talented

Instructional and/or curriculum models used	Accelerated credit learning Gifted / high performing Honors track
College preparation / awareness resources offered	College prep programs/courses during the year College presentations or information sessions Community college courses School-sponsored trips to college campuses Visiting teachers or lecturers from colleges

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School basics

School Leader's name	Brandon Cohen
Best ways for parents to contact the school	Email
Is there an application process?	Yes
Fax number	(213) 482-0792

Programs

Instructional and/or curriculum models used Don't understand these terms?	Accelerated credit learning Gifted / high performing Honors track Virtual school
Specific academic themes or areas of focus Don't understand these terms?	Business Science Technology
Foreign languages taught	Chinese (Mandarin) French Spanish

Resources

Foreign languages spoken by staff	Chinese (Cantonese) Chinese (Mandarin) French German Korean Spanish Tagalog
Extra learning resources offered	Career/college counseling
College preparation / awareness resources offered	College prep programs/courses during the year College presentations or information sessions Community college courses School-sponsored trips to college campuses Visiting teachers or lecturers from colleges
School facilities	Cafeteria Computer Library

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Sports

Boys sports	Basketball Cross country Soccer Tennis Track
Girls sports	Basketball Cross country Softball Track

Arts & music

Media arts

Video / Film production

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Clubs (distinct from courses)

Yearbook

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DMHS is an outstanding, globally minded school that provides students a nurturing and supportive environment with high academic expectations and high achievement. Our primary goal is to ensure every one of our students becomes STELLAR (Scholars, Technologically Savvy, Effective Communicators, Leaders, Life-long Learners, Aware, Responsible) over the course their four years with us. A STELLAR student is not someone who only tests well, but is a person who will positively contribute to the community, who can challenge an argument, who cares about the consequences of an action, who embraces the differences among us, and who has a love of learning. We have a faculty that works tirelessly to improve their professional practice and support student learning as evidenced by our year after year improvement in test scores, graduation rates, and four-year college attendance rates. We are proud to have the highest high school Academic Performance Index (API) in LAUSD’s Local District 4 for three years running, and our score rose to 784 in 2011 – a 28-point increase! We have continued to devote our efforts to developing our robust Magnet career pathways in business, electronic information, and fashion. Students learn 21st Century skills to prepare themselves to enter a workforce that demands effective communication, collaboration, and creativity. We give students the opportunity to experience work-based learning at many of our local Downtown Los Angeles business partners. We currently receive over $200,000 in grant money annually for our three academies, and we have had ongoing professional development for all of our teachers to enrich the interdisciplinary connections necessary for relevant and rigorous learning. We are proud to add engineering as an additional STEM pathway for the 2011-2012 school year, giving our students yet another option in preparing to be both career and college ready when they graduate Downtown Magnets High School. We also have a vibrant advanced placement (AP) and honors program that now includes a ninth grade AP Human Geography option and a wide range of choices throughout a student's four-year stay here. We make an effort to give all of our students the opportunity to take one or more of these courses, and we have shown marked improvement in our pass rates in recent years, including a 96% pass rate on last year's AP United States History test. I invite you to stop by and learn more about the stellar learning experience we offer our students at DMHS. Our school has an incredibly warm and welcoming family culture, and our DMHS parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, and grandparents are all an integral part of it. Please do not hesitate to contact the school if you would like to learn more.

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1081 West Temple Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
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Phone: (213) 481-0371

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Females	52%
Males	72%
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Asian	85%
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Hispanic or Latino	52%
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English learner	92%
Fluent-English proficient and English only	59%
Migrant education	n/a
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Females	61%
Males	60%
African American	32%
Asian	75%
Filipino	67%
Hispanic or Latino	57%
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Non-economically disadvantaged	63%
Students with disability	31%
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English learner	22%
Fluent-English proficient and English only	65%
Migrant education	n/a
Gifted and talented	95%
Parent education - not a high school graduate	55%
Parent education - high school graduate	64%
Parent education - some college (includes AA degree)	74%
Parent education - college graduate	58%
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All Students	90%
Females	92%
Males	89%
African American	84%
Asian	92%
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English learner	59%
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Foreign languages spoken by school staff	Chinese (Cantonese) French German Korean Chinese (Mandarin) Spanish Tagalog
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