High · Alternative · Grades 9 to 12
Independence Continuation, Lake Balboa, CA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 103
- Teachers (FTE)
- 5.0
- Students per teacher
- 20.6
- Grades
- 9 to 12
This school's ratio is 1.4 higher than the district figure of 19.2. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 6501 Balboa Blvd., Lake Balboa, CA 91406
- Phone
- (818)881-7737
- District
- Los Angeles Unified
- County
- Los Angeles County
- Level
- High
- Type
- Alternative
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Large
- NCES school ID
- 062271003100
School meals
- Free lunch
- 88
- Reduced-price lunch
- 5
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 9390.3% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 58Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other high schools in Los Angeles Unified
- Grover Cleveland Charter High 2,719 students
- North Hollywood Senior High 2,444 students
- Phineas Banning Senior High 2,422 students
- San Pedro Senior High 2,398 students
- Venice Senior High 2,293 students
- James A. Garfield Senior High 2,237 students
- Taft Charter High 2,221 students
- John F. Kennedy High 2,152 students
- John H. Francis Polytechnic 2,124 students
- Bell Senior High 2,088 students
- Alexander Hamilton Senior High 2,055 students
- Eagle Rock High 2,031 students
High schools elsewhere in Lake Balboa
- Birmingham Community Charter High Birmingham Community Charter High District
- High Tech LA High Tech LA District
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.