Beachy Avenue Elementary

As a mid-sized elementary school in Arleta, California, Beachy Avenue Elementary works with 398 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified.

Los Angeles Unified comprises 784 schools with combined enrollment of 406,887 students; Beachy Avenue Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Beachy Avenue Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%). Other groups include 5% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Beachy Avenue Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Beachy Avenue Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.2%, the actual is 28.1%, a residual of +1.9 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) reports that median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Beachy Avenue Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Arleta High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Beachy Avenue Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 36.1%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Beachy Avenue Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 25% since 2018, when it stood at 529 (now 398). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.0:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Beachy Avenue Elementary community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.