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Enrollment
415
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOS ANGELES UNIFIED·NCES 062271002895
Capistrano Avenue Elementary
8118 Capistrano Ave., West Hills, CA 91304 · (818) 883-8981 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL415 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 91% of California public elementary schools
- B+Test 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.
- A-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
19.8:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
336 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 65%
Community
5
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 | 92 | 22% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 66 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (92) is 26% larger than its 5th grade class (73).
Student demographics
51%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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Capistrano Avenue Elementary→Canoga Park Middle
Based on published attendance-zone data from Los Angeles Unified. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
52.2%
CA avg 49.1% . +6.2pp since 2014
Math
52.7%
CA avg 37.7% . +11.7pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 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 6 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 12 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 27.8% | 24.4% | 21.7% | 26.1% |
| Math | 28.8% | 23.9% | 21.7% | 25.5% |
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 | 52.2% | 52.7% |
| 2023-24 | 54.7% | 59.4% |
| 2022-23 | 50.0% | 54.6% |
| 2021-22 | 46.5% | 44.1% |
| 2018-19 | 61.7% | 56.6% |
| 2017-18 | 57.3% | 48.8% |
| 2016-17 | 61.2% | 59.5% |
| 2015-16 | 58.0% | 52.0% |
| 2014-15 | 46.0% | 41.0% |
% 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
54.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.1%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 32% 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 22 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 Capistrano Avenue Elementary
Capistrano Avenue Elementary's state test result (54.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capistrano Avenue Elementary this school | 415 | 81.0% | 54.2% |
| Catherine Everett Elementary Modesto | 428 | 80.6% | 26.2% |
| Louis J. Villalovoz Elementary Tracy | 411 | 79.6% | 30.4% |
| Powers-Ginsburg Elementary Fresno | 421 | 82.9% | 30.1% |
| Robert L. Stevens Elementary Santa Rosa | 421 | 80.8% | 53.1% |
| Tulsa Street Elementary Granada Hills | 406 | 76.6% | 42.6% |
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 Capistrano Avenue Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.2% | #1,442 of 5,151 | #325 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.7% | #1,423 of 5,172 ▼ 373 | #333 of 1,129 ▼ 98 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.2% | #1,872 of 5,172 ▼ 302 | #421 of 1,129 ▼ 78 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.1pp | #1,112 of 5,116 | #360 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 415 | #3,496 of 5,915 | #737 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.8:1 | #830 of 5,352 | #257 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.9% | #2,697 of 5,354 | #434 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.0% | #2,096 of 5,625 | #673 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.7% | #3,669 of 3,837 | #920 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
415
-8 (-2%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 466
Student : Teacher
19.8:1
was 21.1:1
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 | 415 | 21 | 19.8:1 | 81% (336) |
| 2023-24 | 422 | 20 | 21.1:1 | 77% (324) |
| 2022-23 | 378 | 20 | 18.9:1 | 75% (283) |
| 2020-21 | 423 | 20 | 21.1:1 | 76% (320) |
| 2017-18 | 422 | 19.5 | 21.6:1 | 82% (346) |
| 2015-16 | 423 | 19 | 22.3:1 | 73% (308) |
| 2010-11 | 375 | N/A | N/A | 70% (263) |
| 2000-01 | 475 | 28 | 17.0:1 | 61% (290) |
| 1990-91 | 466 | 23 | 20.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Capistrano Avenue Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (422 to 415); teachers up 8% (19.5 to 21).
About Capistrano Avenue Elementary
Capistrano Avenue Elementary is an elementary school with a street address in West Hills, California. The school serves kindergarten through 5. Enrollment is 415 students.
Capistrano Avenue Elementary sits within Los Angeles Unified, which has 784 schools and 406,887 students.
More than half of enrollment at Capistrano Avenue Elementary is Hispanic: 68%. Other groups make up 12% White, 8% multiracial, 7% Asian, and 4% Black. Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Capistrano Avenue Elementary scores 51%.
Based on 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, Capistrano Avenue Elementary has a ratio of 19.8:1. The average for elementary schools in California, 22.3:1, is higher. Income data for the school show 81% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Los Angeles County is 70%.
Capistrano Avenue Elementary earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 91% of California public elementary schools.
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 32.1%. Capistrano Avenue Elementary posts 54.2%, 22.1 points above that, which places it in the top 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
Census data for Los Angeles County show median household income comes to about $90,112, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. The county has 2,244 public schools and about 1,265,907 students.
Capistrano Avenue Elementary is about 0.4 miles from Canoga Park Middle, its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Capistrano Avenue Elementary at 2nd of 6.
In the federal locale system, Capistrano Avenue Elementary is coded City: Large, for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show 423 students in 2020-21 and 415 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%. Students per teacher dropped from 21.1 in 2020-21 to 19.8 in 2024-25.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at Capistrano Avenue Elementary. You can also rate the school on this page.
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 Capistrano Avenue ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Capistrano Avenue Elementary?
Capistrano Avenue Elementary enrolls approximately 415 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Capistrano Avenue Elementary serve?
Capistrano Avenue Elementary serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Capistrano Avenue Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Capistrano Avenue Elementary is approximately 19.8:1 (21 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Capistrano Avenue Elementary?
At Capistrano Avenue Elementary, the student body is approximately 12% White, 68% Hispanic, 4% Black, 7% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Capistrano Avenue Elementary?
Capistrano 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.