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Here are a few fun facts about Loyola High School.

  • 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 $14,810 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 $19,900.
  • Loyola underwrites more than 35 percent of the cost of educating every student who attends the school.
  • 99 percent of graduates matriculate to college, 96 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 $5,250, or 42 percent of tuition.
  • Only 65 percent of funding for ongoing school operations comes from tuition; the rest is from philanthropic support.
  • Approximately 800 students apply for 310 slots in the freshman class each year.
  • The teacher/student ratio is 1:16.
  • 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.