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Which teacher or staff member at Canterbury Avenue Elementary deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
578
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOS ANGELES UNIFIED·NCES 062271002892
Canterbury Avenue Elementary
13670 Montague St., Arleta, CA 91331 · (818) 892-1104 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL578 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 75% 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.
- ABeats 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
20.6:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
494 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 65%
Community
6
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 | 128 | 22% |
| Grade 1 | 84 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 96 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 93 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (128) is 38% larger than its 5th grade class (93).
Student demographics
20%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
46.1%
CA avg 49.1% . +10.1pp since 2014
Math
45.8%
CA avg 37.7% . +13.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 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 10 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 14 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 23.5% | 22.7% | 23.5% | 30.4% |
| Math | 22.5% | 23.3% | 26.3% | 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 | 46.1% | 45.8% |
| 2023-24 | 48.4% | 46.4% |
| 2022-23 | 43.8% | 48.5% |
| 2021-22 | 46.7% | 43.4% |
| 2018-19 | 43.2% | 37.9% |
| 2017-18 | 38.3% | 33.2% |
| 2016-17 | 39.5% | 34.9% |
| 2015-16 | 41.0% | 35.0% |
| 2014-15 | 36.0% | 32.0% |
% 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
46.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.5%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% 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 17 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 Canterbury Avenue Elementary
Canterbury Avenue Elementary's state test result (46.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canterbury Avenue Elementary this school | 578 | 85.5% | 46.6% |
| Fred L. Williams Elementary Oxnard | 572 | 85.5% | 21.4% |
| Vineyard Elementary Ontario | 562 | 86.7% | 35.4% |
| Cypress Elementary Fontana | 572 | 85.3% | 19.8% |
| Goldenrod Elementary Kerman | 617 | 87.2% | 36.0% |
| Jefferson Elementary Santa Ana | 616 | 83.6% | 31.4% |
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 Canterbury Avenue Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.6% | #1,953 of 5,151 | #452 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.8% | #1,867 of 5,172 ▼ 140 | #453 of 1,129 ▼ 57 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.1% | #2,349 of 5,172 ▼ 329 | #558 of 1,129 ▼ 104 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.9pp | #3,052 of 5,116 | #752 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 578 | #1,581 of 5,915 | #311 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.6:1 | #1,290 of 5,352 | #390 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 19.8% | #4,429 of 5,354 | #878 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.5% | #1,609 of 5,625 | #583 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -34.8% | #300 of 3,837 | #142 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
578
-133 (-19%) vs 2020
-42% since 1990-91, when it was 994
Student : Teacher
20.6:1
was 22.2:1
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 | 578 | 28 | 20.6:1 | 85% (494) |
| 2023-24 | 606 | 30 | 20.2:1 | 83% (503) |
| 2022-23 | 612 | 29 | 21.1:1 | 87% (534) |
| 2020-21 | 711 | 32 | 22.2:1 | 86% (615) |
| 2017-18 | 887 | 38 | 23.3:1 | 82% (730) |
| 2015-16 | 1,018 | 41 | 24.8:1 | 80% (813) |
| 2010-11 | 1,118 | N/A | N/A | 82% (917) |
| 2000-01 | 1,128 | 58 | 19.4:1 | 75% (851) |
| 1990-91 | 994 | 35 | 28.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Canterbury Avenue Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 35% (887 to 578); teachers down 26% (38 to 28).
About Canterbury Avenue Elementary
Canterbury Avenue Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school based in Arleta, California. Its enrollment is 578 students, spread over kindergarten through 5. That compares with an average of about 465 students for elementary schools in California.
Canterbury Avenue Elementary is a school in Los Angeles Unified. The district has 784 schools and 406,887 students.
By race and ethnicity, Canterbury Avenue Elementary is 89% Hispanic. Other groups include 6% Asian and 3% multiracial. The county population is about 48% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 20, compared with 70 nationally.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Canterbury Avenue Elementary is 20.6:1, based on 28 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in California, 22.3:1, is higher. Canterbury Avenue Elementary counts 85% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Los Angeles County, the average is 70%.
Among California public elementary schools, Canterbury Avenue Elementary outscored 75%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Schools in California with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate across its state test results near 29.5%. Canterbury Avenue Elementary posts 46.6%, 17.2 points above that, which places it in the top 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
In Los Angeles County, home to about 9,808,667 people, the median household earns about $90,112 a year, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Los Angeles County number 2,244, with about 1,265,907 students.
Canterbury Avenue Elementary is about 0.4 miles from Valor Academy Elementary, its nearest public school. Canterbury Avenue Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 37.5% on proficiency, and Canterbury Avenue Elementary is above that at 46.6%.
For locale, NCES codes Canterbury Avenue Elementary as City: Large.
A 19% decline took enrollment from 711 in 2020-21 to 578 in 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (20.6:1) than in 2020-21 (22.2:1).
Canterbury Avenue Elementary has a community page on allk12 for topics such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 Canterbury Avenue ElementaryHow large is Canterbury Avenue Elementary?
Canterbury Avenue Elementary enrolls approximately 578 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Canterbury Avenue Elementary serve?
Canterbury Avenue Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Canterbury Avenue Elementary?
Approximately 20.6:1 students per teacher at Canterbury Avenue Elementary.
How diverse is Canterbury Avenue Elementary?
Canterbury Avenue Elementary reports a student body of 1% White, 89% Hispanic, 0% Black, 6% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Canterbury Avenue Elementary?
Canterbury Avenue Elementary is overseen by Los Angeles Unified in Los Angeles County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.