Calahan Street Elementary

Calahan Street Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary-level community in Northridge, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. The school enrolls 474 students in grades K through 5.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Calahan Street Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Calahan Street Elementary shows that 60% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 13% Asian, 11% White, 10% multiracial, 6% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Calahan Street Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.9%, the actual is 38.0%, a residual of +2.1 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Calahan Street Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Topeka Charter School for Advanced Studies, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Calahan Street Elementary comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 43.5%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 563 students in 2018 compared to 474 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 23% to 11%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.5:1 in 2018 to 21.6:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Calahan Street Elementary typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.