Enrollment
355
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOS ANGELES UNIFIED·NCES 062271002883
Cahuenga Elementary
220 South Hobart Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004 · (213) 386-6303 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL355 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 83% of California public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-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
16.9:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
308 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 65%
Community
0
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 | 76 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 66 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 49% larger than its 5th grade class (51).
Student demographics
53%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
49.4%
CA avg 49.1% . +1.4pp since 2014
Math
50.6%
CA avg 37.7% . +0.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 1 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 29.6% | 19.8% | 22.1% | 28.5% |
| Math | 34.3% | 16.3% | 21.5% | 27.9% |
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 | 49.4% | 50.6% |
| 2023-24 | 49.7% | 43.5% |
| 2022-23 | 45.6% | 52.7% |
| 2021-22 | 44.0% | 46.8% |
| 2018-19 | 47.4% | 50.2% |
| 2017-18 | 50.7% | 54.2% |
| 2016-17 | 55.7% | 57.8% |
| 2015-16 | 50.0% | 50.0% |
| 2014-15 | 48.0% | 50.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
48.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.7%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 29% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in California's top 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 Cahuenga Elementary
Cahuenga Elementary's state test result (48.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cahuenga Elementary this school | 355 | 86.8% | 48.2% |
| Roosevelt Elementary San Gabriel | 365 | 87.4% | 32.0% |
| Webber Elementary Westminster | 314 | 86.9% | 36.5% |
| Mamie L. Northcutt Elementary Fountain Valley | 400 | 84.0% | 47.9% |
| Mitchell Elementary Garden Grove | 390 | 84.6% | 41.0% |
| Genevieve M. Crosby Elementary Garden Grove | 325 | 82.8% | 46.1% |
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 Cahuenga Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.2% | #1,845 of 5,151 | #417 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.6% | #1,548 of 5,172 ▲ 382 | #354 of 1,129 ▲ 92 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.4% | #2,078 of 5,172 ▼ 160 | #476 of 1,129 ▼ 50 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.6pp | #1,790 of 5,116 | #498 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 355 | #4,230 of 5,915 | #917 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #125 of 5,352 | #35 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.6% | #2,563 of 5,354 | #408 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.8% | #1,493 of 5,625 | #557 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.8% | #769 of 3,837 | #318 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
355
-30 (-8%) vs 2020
-63% since 1990-91, when it was 963
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
was 19.3:1
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 | 355 | 21 | 16.9:1 | 87% (308) |
| 2023-24 | 365 | 20 | 18.3:1 | 83% (304) |
| 2022-23 | 355 | 20 | 17.8:1 | 87% (310) |
| 2020-21 | 385 | 20 | 19.3:1 | 88% (338) |
| 2017-18 | 485 | 23 | 21.1:1 | 82% (397) |
| 2015-16 | 537 | 24 | 22.4:1 | 80% (429) |
| 2010-11 | 874 | N/A | N/A | 69% (606) |
| 2000-01 | 1,299 | 67 | 19.4:1 | 89% (1,158) |
| 1990-91 | 963 | 39 | 24.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cahuenga Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 27% (485 to 355); teachers down 9% (23 to 21).
About Cahuenga Elementary
Families in Los Angeles, California, are served by Cahuenga Elementary, a low-enrollment elementary school. It offers kindergarten through 5 and has 355 students enrolled. That is 24% below the average of about 465 students for elementary schools in California.
Cahuenga Elementary is one of 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified, which enrolls 406,887 students in total.
More than half of the students at Cahuenga Elementary are Hispanic (62%). The rest of enrollment is 30% Asian, 4% multiracial, and 3% White. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Los Angeles County's population at about 48%. The diversity index for Cahuenga Elementary is 53%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Cahuenga Elementary has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.9:1. The school's 16.9:1 compares with an average of 22.3:1 for elementary schools in California. The school has 87% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 70% average for public schools in Los Angeles County is 17 points.
Among California public elementary schools, Cahuenga Elementary outscored 83%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Cahuenga Elementary is +19.5 points, in the top 10% of California. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 48.2%, and the predicted rate is 28.7%.
Census data for Los Angeles County show the median household earns about $90,112 a year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Counting Cahuenga Elementary, Los Angeles County has 2,244 public schools.
Charles H. Kim Elementary is the nearest public school to Cahuenga Elementary, about 0.2 miles away. Cahuenga Elementary is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The school's 48.2% average proficiency ranks 2nd among 9 nearby schools.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).
Enrollment decreased by 8% across 4 years, from 385 in 2020-21 to 355 in 2024-25. The ratio was 19.3:1 in 2020-21 and 16.9:1 in 2024-25.
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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 Cahuenga ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Cahuenga Elementary?
Cahuenga Elementary enrolls approximately 355 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Cahuenga Elementary serve?
Cahuenga Elementary serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Cahuenga Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Cahuenga Elementary is approximately 16.9:1 (21 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Cahuenga Elementary?
At Cahuenga Elementary, the student body is approximately 3% White, 62% Hispanic, 1% Black, 30% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Cahuenga Elementary public or private?
Cahuenga Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Los Angeles Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.