Canoga Park Elementary

Located at 7438 Topanga Canyon Blvd., in Canoga Park, California, Canoga Park Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school that teaches 462 students (grades K through 5), operated by Los Angeles Unified.

Los Angeles Unified comprises 784 schools with combined enrollment of 406,887 students; Canoga Park Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Canoga Park Elementary lists that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 4% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Canoga Park Elementary has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Canoga Park Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Canoga Park Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 19.5%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Canoga Park Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Village Charter Academy, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Canoga Park Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Canoga Park Elementary at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 33.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 26%: 626 students in 2018 compared to 462 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 92% to 88% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 21.0:1 in 2025.

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