Capistrano Avenue Elementary

Located at 8118 Capistrano Ave., in West Hills, California, Capistrano Avenue Elementary is a mid-tier elementary-level community that hosts 415 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified.

Capistrano Avenue Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that enrolls 406,887 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Capistrano Avenue Elementary reports that 68% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 12% White, 8% multiracial, 7% Asian, 4% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Capistrano Avenue Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 31.3%; Capistrano Avenue Elementary posts 56.5%, +25.3 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, Los Angeles County reports that median household income runs about $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. Capistrano Avenue Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Ingenium Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Capistrano Avenue Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Capistrano Avenue Elementary at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 36.8%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 422 students in 2018 compared to 415 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 14% to 7% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 today.

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