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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Avalon K-12 administration to hear?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
443
Combined
DISTRICT 759 · STATE 602
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LONG BEACH UNIFIED·NCES 062250007299
Avalon K-12
200 Falls Canyon Rd., Santa Catalina, CA 90704 · (310) 510-0790 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–12COMBINED32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL443 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 1% of California public K-12 schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- FThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public K-12 schools
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.9:1 · STATE 18.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
258 students
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other combined schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 41 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 27 | 6% |
| Grade 2 | 26 | 6% |
| Grade 3 | 30 | 7% |
| Grade 4 | 29 | 7% |
| Grade 5 | 31 | 7% |
| Grade 6 | 33 | 7% |
| Grade 7 | 35 | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 30 | 7% |
| Grade 9 | 48 | 11% |
| Grade 10 | 37 | 8% |
| Grade 11 | 35 | 8% |
| Grade 12 | 41 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 37% larger than its 8th grade class (30).
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
19.0%
CA avg 49.1% . -16.0pp since 2014
Math
11.6%
CA avg 37.7% . -15.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 16 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 15 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 3.4% | 15.6% | 24.9% | 56.1% |
| Math | 4.5% | 7.1% | 25.8% | 62.6% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 19.0% | 11.6% |
| 2023-24 | 23.8% | 12.8% |
| 2022-23 | 26.1% | 19.3% |
| 2021-22 | 31.7% | 19.2% |
| 2020-21 | 33.1% | 20.0% |
| 2018-19 | 35.0% | 23.6% |
| 2017-18 | 28.4% | 23.6% |
| 2016-17 | 37.6% | 26.4% |
| 2015-16 | 36.0% | 30.0% |
| 2014-15 | 35.0% | 27.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
17.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.4%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-28.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 45% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Avalon K-12
Avalon K-12's state test result (17.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avalon K-12 this school | 443 | 58.2% | 17.3% |
| Mountain Park Monrovia | 51 | 72.5% | 29.5% |
| Sequoia Career Academy Ukiah | 144 | 73.6% | N/A |
| Berenece Carlson Home Hospital North Hollywood | 381 | 86.1% | 29.3% |
| Foshay Learning Center Los Angeles | 1,530 | 84.7% | 34.1% |
| Uncharted Shores Academy Crescent City | 283 | 57.2% | N/A |
Matched among California K-12 schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Avalon K-12 ranks
Among K-12 schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.3% | #6 of 7 | #6 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 11.6% | #6 of 7 ▼ 1 | #6 of 6 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 19.0% | #7 of 7 ▼ 2 | #6 of 6 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -10.1pp | #1 of 7 | #1 of 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 443 | #27 of 208 | #9 of 24 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.4:1 | #36 of 59 | #3 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.2% | #50 of 59 | #6 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.2% | #59 of 95 | #12 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.4% | #22 of 37 | #4 of 10 |
Ranked against other public K-12 schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
443
-34 (-7%) vs 2020
+111% since 1990-91, when it was 210
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
was 17.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 443 | 25.5 | 17.4:1 | 58% (258) |
| 2023-24 | 453 | 30.6 | 14.8:1 | 60% (271) |
| 2022-23 | 451 | 29.9 | 15.1:1 | 52% (236) |
| 2020-21 | 477 | 28 | 17.0:1 | 58% (276) |
| 2017-18 | 571 | 28.5 | 20.0:1 | 70% (397) |
| 2015-16 | 626 | 33 | 19.0:1 | 69% (431) |
| 2010-11 | 600 | N/A | N/A | 70% (419) |
| 2000-01 | 718 | 40 | 17.9:1 | 39% (283) |
| 1990-91 | 210 | 13 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Avalon K-12.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (571 to 443); teachers down 10% (28.5 to 25.5).
About Avalon K-12
Avalon K-12 is a public small combined-grade school in Santa Catalina, California. A federal count lists 443 students at the school, in kindergarten through 12. An average school in this group (combined schools in California) has about 602 students.
Long Beach Unified is made up of 82 schools with 62,255 students in all.
The student body at Avalon K-12 is 81% Hispanic. Enrollment also includes 16% White. Among people living in Los Angeles County, the Hispanic share is about 48%. The school's diversity index is 31%, meaning two students picked at random have a 31% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Federal data list 25.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at Avalon K-12 in 2024-25, for a ratio of 17.4:1. That is lower than the 18.6:1 average for combined schools in California. The lunch program counts 58% of students at Avalon K-12 as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. For comparison, public schools in Los Angeles County average 70%.
Avalon K-12 is graded F by allk12, scoring above 1% of California public K-12 schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Avalon K-12 trails its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests by 28.1 points (17.3% versus 45.4%), a bottom-10% result in California on BeatsExpectations.
Census estimates describe Los Angeles County this way: the median household income is $90,112, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. In all, Los Angeles County has 2,244 public schools and roughly 1,265,907 students.
The school nearest to Avalon K-12 is Angel's Gate (Continuation), at a distance of about 26.0 miles. Ranked by average proficiency, Avalon K-12 places 7th out of 7 schools in its immediate area.
The NCES locale for Avalon K-12 is Town: Distant, which covers schools in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
The school enrolled 443 students in 2024-25, 34 fewer than the 477 it had in 2020-21.
If you have questions about school safety, transportation, and start times at Avalon K-12, you can post them here. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Los Angeles County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
9,808,667
Census ACS
Median income
$90,112
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
2,244
1,265,907 students
Quick facts
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Frequently asked questions
About Avalon K-12How many students attend Avalon K-12?
Avalon K-12 enrolls approximately 443 students in grades KG-12.
Is Avalon K-12 an elementary, middle, or high school?
Avalon K-12 is a combined-grade school covering grades KG-12.
How many teachers does Avalon K-12 have?
Avalon K-12 employs 26 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.4:1.
How diverse is Avalon K-12?
Avalon K-12 reports a student body of 16% White, 81% Hispanic, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Avalon K-12?
Avalon K-12 is overseen by Long Beach Unified in Los Angeles County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.