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New Designs Charter School-Watts

12714 South Avalon Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90061View on map

  • Public
  • Los Angeles
  • 37 seniors
  • 145 students

New Designs Charter School-Watts is a public high school in Los Angeles (Los Angeles Unified) with 37 seniors. 100% of the class of 2023 completed the A–G courses UC requires.

Year

UC admit rate

70%

Pooled over 3 years; too few applicants in fall 2025 alone

County median 76%

Seniors admitted to a UC

too few applicants to report

37 seniors

Seniors who applied to UC

16%

6 of 37 seniors

County median 37%

UC Los Angeles (UCLA) admit rate

too few applicants to report

Fall 2025

UC Berkeley (Cal) admit rate

too few applicants to report

Fall 2025

Campus by campus, fall 2025

The share of this school's applicants each campus admitted, beside the campus's rate for everyone else. Hardest campus first.

University of California

  • Irvine

    too few applicants to report5 applied

  • Los Angeles

    too few applicants to report5 applied

  • Berkeley

    too few applicants to report— applied

  • Merced

    too few applicants to report— applied

  • Riverside

    too few applicants to report— applied

  • San Diego

    too few applicants to report— applied

  • Santa Barbara

    too few applicants to report— applied

Fall 2025. A student admitted to several campuses counts once at each one. All CA is the campus’s admit rate that fall for applicants from every California high school. Within 3 points counts as about the same. GPA is the UC-calculated GPA (weighted, capped).

California State University

New Designs Charter School-Watts applicants did better than the campus overall at 0 of 1 campus, worse at 1.

Fall 2025. A student admitted to several campuses counts once at each one. Overall is the campus’s admit rate for all its applicants, from federal IPEDS data (fall 2023, the latest published). Within 3 points counts as about the same.

Where graduates go

Class of 2023 (61 graduates), the latest published by fall 2025, within 12 months of graduating.

Any college

43%

26 of 61 graduates

UC or CSU

18%

11 graduates

Community college

15%

9 graduates

DestinationGraduatesShare
UC00%
CSU1118%
CA private college47%
Out of state23%
Community college915%
Not enrolled3557%
Enrolled in college2643%
Total61100%

How each student group compares

Compare college-going across student groups

  • Gender: Male, Female
  • Race & ethnicity: Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino
  • Student need: Low-income, Students with disabilities
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Advanced Placement

1

AP course offered

2023–24 school year · US Dept. of Education Civil Rights Data Collection

3

AP class sections

Counts every section taught, so it is larger than the number of different AP courses.

25% of students are in AP courses

2024–25 school year · California School Accountability Report Card

26%

of graduating seniors passed at least two AP exams or courses

9 of 35 graduates

A score of 3 or higher on exams or a C- or better in courses. Not comparable with the exam-only share.

2025–26 school year · California Department of Education (College/Career Indicator)

0%

of graduating seniors scored 3 or higher on at least two AP exams

0 of 37 graduates

2023–24 school year · California Department of Education (College/Career Indicator)

Subject areas

  • Science: 1 class
  • Social science: 2 classes

Academic context

State test (CAASPP), juniors tested in 2026, and the share of low-income students. A–G is the class of 2023. The tick is the county median.

  • Juniors meeting the English standard 60%County median 57%
  • Juniors meeting the math standard 25%County median 27%
  • Juniors exceeding the English standard 13%County median 23%
  • Juniors exceeding the math standard 0%County median 11%
  • Low-income students 99%County median 86%
  • Graduates completing courses 100%County median 64%

Across California

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