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The Los Angeles School System

Did you know that Los Angeles is home to more than 1,200 public schools in addition to the numerous private schools in the city? As with most larger cities, there are some schools that offer stronger academic programs, but gaining admission to these schools can be challenging. With about 640,000 students in public schools alone, navigating the Los Angeles educational system can be stressful for parents and students.

In-home or online tutoring can help you or your child set themselves apart from the crowd. Private tutors in Los Angeles can assist with challenging college coursework, as well as elementary school homework assignments - or with specialized test preparation for exams such as the ACT, ISEE, SAT, and the CAASPP.

Here's a breakdown of SAT test scores in Los Angeles. How does your student measure up?

Los Angeles Test Scores

The CAASPP, or California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress, is unique to California. This is an entire system of assessment exams implemented to get an ongoing and accurate picture of a student’s academic progress.

An expert Los Angeles tutor can help students master the core curriculum, learn new test-taking strategies, and increase their overall academic confidence. Many of the CAASPP tests are still being developed, with new pilot tests being rolled out semi-regularly. It’s hard to know what exactly to expect, so it’s important for students to work on the subject matter and their general comfort level with taking standardized tests.

Curious about which high schools are at the top of the academic pile? Consider this table:

Los Angeles High School Rankings

High School	Los Angeles Ranking	State Ranking	AP Pass Rate
Granada Hills Charter High School	1	12	57%
L.A. County High School for the Arts	2	61	82%
Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies	3	90	78%
High Tech Los Angeles	4	96	47%
Palisades Charter High School	5	112	48%
Calabasas High School	6	143	62%
Downtown Magnets High School	7	167	71%
El Camino Real Charter High School	8	179	37%
Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies	9	194	75%
Port of Los Angeles High School	10	207	46%

Private, individual tutoring found with the assistance of Varsity Tutors can help learners with school subjects, learning skills, test preparation, and more. From pre-kindergarten to college, personalized tutoring can help you meet your academic goals. Perhaps your high school student would like to attend one of these top Los Angeles colleges:

Los Angeles University Rankings

College	National Rank	Acceptance Rate
California Institute of Technology	10	8%
Pomona College	18	9%
University of Southern California	19	17%
Harvey Mudd College	26	13%
Claremont McKenna College	34	9%
University of California - Los Angeles	36	18%
Scripps College	65	30%

An experienced tutor can work with a student to improve SAT or ACT scores. A private tutor can also help him or her improve writing skills so he or she is able to write a compelling admissions essay to their preferred university. The one-on-one approach provides an advantage compared to the classroom, where instructors are overextended trying to accommodate as many students as possible. Here are some statistics on student-teacher ratios in Los Angeles:

Los Angeles Student-to-Teacher Ratios

River Springs Charter School has a 27 1 student-teacher ratio.

Paramount High School has a 26 1 student-teacher ratio.

Granada Hills Charter High School has a 20 1 student-teacher ratio.

Polytechnic High School has a 26 1 student-teacher ratio.

Lane Tech College Prep High School has a 26 1 student-teacher ratio.

California State Average has a 15 1 student-teacher ratio.

How Varsity Tutors Can Help

No matter your learning goal, Los Angeles tutoring with Varsity Tutors can help you achieve it. You might be a business professional with a desire to gain a new set of marketable skills, such as computer coding or speaking a foreign language. You could be a travel enthusiast who wants to perfect your French before an upcoming trip to Paris. Or, you may be a college student who needs individual tutoring with a subject expert. Whatever your needs, tutoring can be both effective and convenient. You choose when and where to meet with your tutor, who can tailor your lessons to match your learning style, address your academic needs, and build upon your strengths. To get started, contact Varsity Tutors today.

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"Today we worked on reading comprehension, reading and studying geography. The student did really well in his reading. Needs to practice the 7 states we learned today as well as keep looking at the map everyday to remain familiar."

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"This was the final session before his test on Wednesday. We worked through a sheet dealing with PDFs and CDFs of the binomial and geometric distribution. Took some time but he gets what the definitions are and how you can translate a word problem into a mathematical statement. "

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"In today session, the student focused on her homework and subtraction. She showed me that they are starting fractions. In her homework today, she had subtraction and addition with two digits, telling time, counting money, and word problems. After her homework, we practiced subtraction. She hard a time remembering to subtract instead of add. She drew out pictures for most of the problems. When practicing addition she showed 100% improvement. "

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"The student and I started our session by reviewing a problem from the homework I assigned her. I then covered the topic of rotational motion, including angular velocity and linear velocity, as well as arc length and the definition of the radian. We then covered the basics of vectors, including magnitude, direction and horizontal/vertical components. We used an online vector simulator to cover these topics, and to learn about vector addition. After practicing a few vector-based velocity problems, we moved on to position, velocity, and acceleration graphs. We used an online simulator to create some graphs and cover the different properties of the 3 types of graphs. I assigned homework for her that covers all of these topics that we reviewed. "

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"We reviewed how to solve limits as the x approaches negative or positive infinity as well as limits that approach infinity. She had a little bit of trouble understanding the behavior of the limit as x approaches infinity, but as we solved more of them, she became much more comfortable with the conceptual part of it. This will be an important skill as we move on to the behavior of derivatives as well as more complex limits, especially ones involving trigonometric functions and logarithms. She will continue and finish the remainder of the chain rule homework for me for the next session, and we will cover some review next week before her first test on limits and continuity. "

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"The student has a test tomorrow over the first two units of statistics, so tonight we looked at a practice test he had nearly completed. For the most part, all the student really needed tonight were a few clarifications and re-explanations; he had most of the concepts down."

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"This session we covered the basic principles in Geometry and Spatial Reasoning. In this subject we broke it down into simple subjects such as line and angle relationships, polygons and angles, and congruent polygons. Practice problems were done and the concept was taught very fluently. For the second half of the session we covered the basics of nonlinear functions and polynomials. The actions of graphing functions such as y=mx+b or y=x^2. After this we worked on adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing monomials and polynomials. Homework problems were given at the end of the session (9 problems) to which I will check during the next session which will occur two weeks from now."

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"The student and I started off by doing a very long, 60-question multiple choice math drill. She only missed 5 problems, which is a great sign. We then went over some vocabulary words from her prep book, which she had not yet studied. I had her make example sentences for each word to help her remember the definitions. "

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"I gave the student an exercise today to help boost his self-confidence. He went through all 60 questions of a practice math test one at a time on his own and I gave him positive reinforcement while letting him know each time he answered a question correctly. Out of the first 30, Dane was able to answer 25 questions completely on his own."

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"The student and I worked on math word problems, proportions and vocabulary. He is gaining a better understanding of how to use the context of the questions to properly answer the problem. We also practiced setting up formulas, using examples from the book."

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"We studied for the student's English test over Arabic and Persian literature. He read the stories in class but doesn't remember them well, so he's going to review them tonight before the test. We focused on the historical context, key terms, and authors."