Anatola Avenue Elementary

Anatola Avenue Elementary operates as a modestly sized K-5 school in Lake Balboa, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 269 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 42% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Anatola Avenue Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Anatola Avenue Elementary records that nearly all students (82%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 6% White, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Anatola Avenue Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.4%; this one delivers 26.9%.

Around the school, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Anatola Avenue Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Gault Street Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Anatola Avenue Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.6%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Anatola Avenue Elementary has declined 40%, going from 446 students in 2018 to 269 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 today.

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