Castle Heights Elementary

Set in Los Angeles, California, Castle Heights Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. It caters to 501 students across grades K through 5.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Castle Heights Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Castle Heights Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 31% White, 13% multiracial, 8% Asian, 8% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully less Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.8:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Castle Heights 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 60.0%; Castle Heights Elementary posts 79.4%, +19.4 points above that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Castle Heights Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Cheviot Hills Continuation, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Castle Heights Elementary at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 54.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 10%: 557 students in 2018 compared to 501 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 39% to 31% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 25.3:1 in 2018 to 22.8:1 in 2025.

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