Berenece Carlson Home Hospital

Set in North Hollywood, California, Berenece Carlson Home Hospital is a tight-knit unified-grade school, run under Los Angeles Unified. It caters to 381 students across grades K through 12. That puts it 37% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 602 students.

Across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students total), Berenece Carlson Home Hospital accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Berenece Carlson Home Hospital reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 64%. Other groups include 14% White, 8% Black, 8% multiracial, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Berenece Carlson Home Hospital logs 97 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 3.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.6:1, putting Berenece Carlson Home Hospital tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 86% of students at Berenece Carlson Home Hospital qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, Berenece Carlson Home Hospital performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.1%, the actual is 29.3%, a residual of +0.2 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Berenece Carlson Home Hospital is one.

Nearest neighbor: Rio Vista Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Berenece Carlson Home Hospital. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Berenece Carlson Home Hospital at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 53.7%.

Berenece Carlson Home Hospital operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Berenece Carlson Home Hospital has contracted 21%, going from 480 students in 2018 to 381 in 2025.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.