Did you know?

• Founded in 1865 in Los Angeles, Loyola High School of Los Angeles is the oldest educational institution in Southern California.
• Students typically come from more than 225 zip codes throughout Los Angeles County and beyond.
• At $11,960, Loyola’s tuition and fees remain among the lowest of all comparable private schools in the region.
• The actual cost of educating each young man is $17,560. Loyola underwrites more than 37 percent of the cost of educating every student who attends the school.
• 99 percent of graduates matriculate to college, 97 percent of them to four-year institutions.
• Loyola is enriched by the diversity of its student body, with some 51 percent students of color.
• Twenty percent of the student body attends Loyola on a need-based scholarship; no tuition or fee dollars are used for financial aid. The average grant is $4,075, or 42 percent of tuition.
• Only 69 percent of funding for ongoing school operations comes from tuition; the rest is from philanthropic support.
• Approximately 750 students apply for 300 slots in the freshman class each year.
• The teacher/student ratio is 1:15.
• The number of Advanced Placement exams has grown 291 percent over the past decade while the pass rate has climbed to 85 percent.
• Approximately 85 percent of the student body is involved in at least one co-curricular activity.
• Of the school’s 101 faculty members, 68 have master’s degrees, while seven have doctorates.
• Seventeen Loyola faculty members have taught at the school for 25 years or more.
• Each student contributes a minimum of 135 hours of community service prior to graduation
  • Each January since 1981, all Loyola seniors have engaged in a required three-week, 85-hour service immersion experience at an agency serving the poor and marginalized.
• Loyola students have provided more than 1.2 million community-service hours over the past two decades.