Enrollment
285
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOS ANGELES UNIFIED·NCES 062271002888
Canfield Avenue Elementary
9233 Airdrome St., Los Angeles, CA 90035 · (310) 552-2525 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL285 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 95% of California public elementary schools
- ATest 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.
- C+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
20.4:1
14 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
141 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 | 51 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 54 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 48 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 45 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 41 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 46 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 11% larger than its 5th grade class (46).
Student demographics
69%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
75.2%
CA avg 49.1% . +18.2pp since 2014
Math
69.0%
CA avg 37.7% . +20.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 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 18 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 20 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 57.6% | 17.6% | 7.2% | 17.6% |
| Math | 50.8% | 18.3% | 20.6% | 10.3% |
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 | 75.2% | 69.0% |
| 2023-24 | 77.1% | 73.3% |
| 2022-23 | 76.2% | 69.0% |
| 2021-22 | 73.7% | 68.2% |
| 2018-19 | 68.4% | 63.6% |
| 2017-18 | 75.0% | 60.1% |
| 2016-17 | 72.8% | 67.9% |
| 2015-16 | 67.0% | 63.0% |
| 2014-15 | 57.0% | 49.0% |
% 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
73.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.5%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+23.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 51% 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 23 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 Canfield Avenue Elementary
Canfield Avenue Elementary's state test result (73.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canfield Avenue Elementary this school | 285 | 49.5% | 73.6% |
| Park Side Elementary Sebastopol | 268 | 46.3% | 56.6% |
| San Gabriel Elementary Atascadero | 360 | 47.5% | 52.8% |
| Thomas Kelly Elementary Carmichael | 321 | 56.1% | 22.5% |
| Lone Tree Elementary Beale AFB | 305 | 48.5% | 50.6% |
| Binkley Elementary Charter Santa Rosa | 351 | 46.7% | 45.2% |
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 Canfield Avenue Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.6% | #486 of 5,151 | #109 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #642 of 5,172 ▼ 177 | #140 of 1,129 ▼ 37 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.2% | #488 of 5,172 ▼ 122 | #111 of 1,129 ▼ 25 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.2pp | #2,939 of 5,116 | #729 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 285 | #4,884 of 5,915 | #1,096 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.4:1 | #1,115 of 5,352 | #342 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.9% | #765 of 5,354 | #127 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.5% | #3,930 of 5,625 | #1,003 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.6% | #1,125 of 3,837 | #413 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
285
-110 (-28%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 362
Student : Teacher
20.4:1
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 | 285 | 14 | 20.4:1 | 49% (141) |
| 2023-24 | 296 | 14.5 | 20.4:1 | 49% (144) |
| 2022-23 | 334 | 13.5 | 24.7:1 | 28% (95) |
| 2020-21 | 395 | 19 | 20.8:1 | 31% (123) |
| 2017-18 | 368 | 16 | 23.0:1 | 31% (113) |
| 2015-16 | 355 | 16 | 22.2:1 | 27% (96) |
| 2010-11 | 406 | N/A | N/A | 20% (82) |
| 2000-01 | 353 | 21 | 16.8:1 | 49% (173) |
| 1990-91 | 362 | 16 | 22.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Canfield Avenue Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (368 to 285); teachers down 12% (16 to 14).
About Canfield Avenue Elementary
Canfield Avenue Elementary is a small elementary school in Los Angeles, California, administered by Los Angeles Unified. Students in kindergarten through 5 attend, and enrollment is 285 students. Average enrollment for elementary schools in California is about 465, so this school runs 39% smaller than that.
Los Angeles Unified enrolls 406,887 students in 784 schools, including Canfield Avenue Elementary.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Canfield Avenue Elementary. The largest is White students, at 46%. The remaining shares are 23% multiracial, 21% Hispanic, 5% Asian, and 5% Black. Census estimates put the White share of Los Angeles County's population at about 31%. Canfield Avenue Elementary's diversity index is 69%, against a US figure of 70%.
Teacher staffing is 14 full-time equivalents, or about 20.4 students per teacher. On average, elementary schools in California have 22.3:1, compared with 20.4:1 here. About 49% of students, or 141, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Los Angeles County average 70%.
The allk12 Grade for Canfield Avenue Elementary is A+. Compared with California public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 95% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Schools in California with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate on state tests near 50.5%. Canfield Avenue Elementary posts 73.6%, 23.1 points above that, which places it in the top 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
Census estimates describe Los Angeles County this way: the median household income is $90,112, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County has 2,244 public schools and roughly 1,265,907 students.
The closest public school to Canfield Avenue Elementary is Shenandoah Street Elementary, about 0.9 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Canfield Avenue Elementary is 2nd of 6 on proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Large, or inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, Canfield Avenue Elementary's enrollment dropped 28%, to 285.
The Canfield Avenue Elementary community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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 Canfield Avenue ElementaryHow many students attend Canfield Avenue Elementary?
Canfield Avenue Elementary enrolls approximately 285 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Canfield Avenue Elementary serve?
Canfield Avenue Elementary serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Canfield Avenue Elementary have?
Canfield Avenue Elementary employs 14 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Canfield Avenue Elementary?
Student demographics at Canfield Avenue Elementary are roughly 46% White, 21% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% Asian, 23% Two or more.
Is Canfield Avenue Elementary public or private?
Canfield Avenue 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.