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What's the most underrated thing about Budlong Avenue Elementary that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
624
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOS ANGELES UNIFIED·NCES 062271002872
Budlong Avenue Elementary
5940 South Budlong Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90044 · (323) 750-6955 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL624 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 29% of California public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.9:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
603 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 118 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 79 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 104 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 105 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 105 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 113 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (118) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (113).
Student demographics
32%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · 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
24.8%
CA avg 49.1% . +6.8pp since 2014
Math
25.0%
CA avg 37.7% . +7.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 9.2% | 15.6% | 23.5% | 51.8% |
| Math | 11.3% | 13.8% | 22.8% | 52.2% |
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 | 24.8% | 25.0% |
| 2023-24 | 20.7% | 19.3% |
| 2022-23 | 21.9% | 20.1% |
| 2021-22 | 21.1% | 15.3% |
| 2018-19 | 23.4% | 22.8% |
| 2017-18 | 26.6% | 22.6% |
| 2016-17 | 25.6% | 18.8% |
| 2015-16 | 21.0% | 22.0% |
| 2014-15 | 18.0% | 18.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
22.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.9%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Budlong Avenue Elementary
Budlong Avenue Elementary's state test result (22.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Budlong Avenue Elementary this school | 624 | 96.6% | 22.4% |
| McKinley Elementary Bakersfield | 628 | 97.6% | 13.3% |
| Dr. Owen Lloyd Knox Elementary Los Angeles | 669 | 97.5% | 33.2% |
| One Hundred Thirty-Fifth Street Elementary Gardena | 554 | 96.0% | 34.9% |
| Centinela Inglewood | 577 | 94.1% | 33.1% |
| Loren Miller Elementary Los Angeles | 601 | 99.0% | 27.0% |
Matched among California elementary 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 Budlong Avenue Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.4% | #4,343 of 5,151 | #1,039 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.0% | #3,768 of 5,172 ▲ 480 | #958 of 1,129 ▲ 65 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.8% | #4,504 of 5,172 ▲ 174 | #1,054 of 1,129 ▲ 23 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.7pp | #1,197 of 5,116 | #379 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 624 | #1,193 of 5,915 | #227 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.9:1 | #502 of 5,352 | #152 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.7% | #3,872 of 5,354 | #721 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.6% | #245 of 5,625 | #131 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.4% | #657 of 3,837 | #271 of 947 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
624
-125 (-17%) vs 2020
-61% since 1990-91, when it was 1,595
Student : Teacher
18.9:1
was 20.8:1
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 | 624 | 33 | 18.9:1 | 97% (603) |
| 2023-24 | 645 | 34 | 19.0:1 | 93% (603) |
| 2022-23 | 659 | 32 | 20.6:1 | 97% (636) |
| 2020-21 | 749 | 36 | 20.8:1 | 95% (713) |
| 2017-18 | 871 | 36 | 24.2:1 | 95% (830) |
| 2015-16 | 872 | 35 | 24.9:1 | 91% (791) |
| 2010-11 | 925 | N/A | N/A | 57% (524) |
| 2000-01 | 1,344 | 65 | 20.7:1 | 92% (1,232) |
| 1990-91 | 1,595 | 64 | 24.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Budlong Avenue Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 28% (871 to 624); teachers down 8% (36 to 33).
About Budlong Avenue Elementary
Among the schools in Los Angeles, California, is Budlong Avenue Elementary, a mid-sized elementary school. It reported 624 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in California average about 465 students, which makes this school 34% above average.
Budlong Avenue Elementary is among 784 schools run by Los Angeles Unified, which serves 406,887 students.
At Budlong Avenue Elementary, 81% of students are Hispanic. After that, the student body is 16% Black. Census figures show Los Angeles County is about 48% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Budlong Avenue Elementary scores 32%.
A staff of 33 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 18.9:1. The gap from the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California is 3.4 students per teacher. By family income, 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 70% average for public schools in Los Angeles County is 27 points lower.
Budlong Avenue Elementary earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 29% of California public elementary schools.
Budlong Avenue Elementary scores 22.4% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 22.9%.
In Los Angeles County, home to about 9,808,667 people, median household income comes to about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. There are 2,244 public schools in the county, enrolling about 1,265,907, Budlong Avenue Elementary among them.
Of the public schools around it, Budlong Avenue Elementary is closest to John Muir Middle, about 0.2 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Budlong Avenue Elementary is 2nd of 6 nearby schools with test data.
NCES assigns Budlong Avenue Elementary the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 17%, from 749 to 624. By 2024-25, the school had 18.9 students per teacher, compared with 20.8 in 2020-21.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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
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Frequently asked questions
About Budlong Avenue ElementaryHow many students attend Budlong Avenue Elementary?
Budlong Avenue Elementary enrolls approximately 624 students in grades KG-05.
Is Budlong Avenue Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Budlong Avenue Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Budlong Avenue Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Budlong Avenue Elementary is approximately 18.9:1 (33 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Budlong Avenue Elementary?
Student demographics at Budlong Avenue Elementary are roughly 1% White, 81% Hispanic, 16% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Budlong Avenue Elementary in?
Budlong Avenue Elementary is part of Los Angeles Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.