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Canoga Park Middle
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Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Canoga Park Middle
Canoga Park Middle operates as a medium-sized middle-grades school in Canoga Park, California, overseen by Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 579 students spanning grades 6 through 8.
Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Canoga Park Middle is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Canoga Park Middle shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (84%); the rest breaks down as 6% Asian, 5% White, 2% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Canoga Park Middle has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Canoga Park Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.
With demographic context factored in, Canoga Park Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.9%, the actual is 17.4%, a residual of -7.5 points.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Canoga Park Middle is one campus in the mix.
Ingenium Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Canoga Park Middle at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 37.7%.
The campus sits in an inner-city setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 17%: 701 students in 2018 compared to 579 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 today.
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