Original Research by School Decision on Alliance Ted K. Tajima High District
Alliance Ted K. Tajima High District is a single-school high school district serving grades nine through twelve as part of the Alliance College-Ready network, a charter school organization operating across Los Angeles County. The school enrolls a small population of students and is heavily concentrated among one demographic group, with the overwhelming majority of enrollment being Hispanic or Latino students and very small numbers of students from other racial and ethnic backgrounds.
The district does not report free-or-reduced-price-lunch rates, special education enrollment, or English learner enrollment in the available data, so the economic and English learner composition of the school population is not clear from these materials. Similarly, state testing proficiency data and the graduation rate were not available, making it difficult to assess academic outcomes directly. A parent seeking that information would want to request it directly from the school or the Alliance network office.
What is visible in the enrollment data is that the school serves roughly equal numbers across the four high school grades, with a total enrollment in the low hundreds. This is a small high school by typical district standards. The school operates without a union contract, which distinguishes it from most large district schools in the county.
The district sits in the middle range on per-pupil spending among Los Angeles County's districts, toward the lower half of that middle band. More notably, chronic absenteeism at the school is in the top quartile county-wide, meaning the district has a lower rate than the median among its county peers. This suggests that attendance engagement is a relative strength for the school.
The Alliance network has undertaken several structural and curricular changes that affect Tajima High. Beginning in the 2024-25 school year, the network implemented a schedule redesign that roughly doubled teacher planning time and expanded scholar enrichment and intervention time built into the school day. This is a fundamental change to how the day is organized and how instruction and student support are delivered.
The network also audited and revised its high school English and language arts curriculum after identifying an absence of Latinx and Black authors in the available texts. The curriculum was then revised to replace and add texts, bringing greater diversity to what students read across the high school program.
Additionally, Alliance has launched a Community Schools Initiative providing whole-child and whole-family wellness supports across its network schools, including a partnership announced to distribute wellness products and services to families at each campus.
Whether these district-level and network-level initiatives fit a particular family's needs and values, and how they combine with the school's academic outcomes and student composition, would require further conversation with the school and review of additional program details not present in this data.
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