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What's one thing Charles H. Kim Elementary gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
483
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOS ANGELES UNIFIED·NCES 062271011646
Charles H. Kim Elementary
225 South Oxford Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90004 · (213) 368-5600 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL483 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 90% of California public elementary schools
- A-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.
- CThree-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
17.9:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
451 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 | 112 | 23% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (112) is 96% larger than its 5th grade class (57).
Student demographics
59%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
60.1%
CA avg 49.1% . +12.1pp since 2014
Math
61.5%
CA avg 37.7% . +16.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 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 12 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 17 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 39.9% | 20.2% | 16.8% | 23.1% |
| Math | 38.5% | 23.1% | 21.1% | 17.3% |
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 | 60.1% | 61.5% |
| 2023-24 | 64.8% | 66.3% |
| 2022-23 | 63.5% | 61.3% |
| 2021-22 | 64.8% | 57.7% |
| 2018-19 | 60.4% | 49.1% |
| 2017-18 | 55.9% | 49.5% |
| 2016-17 | 46.3% | 47.0% |
| 2015-16 | 50.0% | 46.0% |
| 2014-15 | 48.0% | 45.0% |
% 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
63.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
24.8%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+38.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 25% 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 38 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 Charles H. Kim Elementary
Charles H. Kim Elementary's state test result (63.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles H. Kim Elementary this school | 483 | 93.4% | 63.1% |
| Ezekiel Balderas Elementary Fresno | 615 | 89.9% | 31.2% |
| April Lane Elementary Yuba City | 488 | 92.4% | 21.7% |
| Meairs Elementary Garden Grove | 387 | 88.9% | 37.5% |
| Ernest O. Lawrence Elementary Garden Grove | 447 | 84.8% | 41.8% |
| Westwood Elementary Stockton | 463 | 82.9% | 30.4% |
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 Charles H. Kim Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.1% | #971 of 5,151 | #221 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.5% | #985 of 5,172 ▼ 228 | #229 of 1,129 ▼ 66 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.1% | #1,317 of 5,172 ▼ 349 | #295 of 1,129 ▼ 77 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.4pp | #1,672 of 5,116 | #289 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 483 | #2,652 of 5,915 | #532 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.9:1 | #248 of 5,352 | #70 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.9% | #1,934 of 5,354 | #289 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.4% | #655 of 5,625 | #298 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.3% | #665 of 3,837 | #276 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
483
-72 (-13%) vs 2020
-20% since 2010-11, when it was 607
Student : Teacher
17.9:1
was 20.6:1
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 | 483 | 27 | 17.9:1 | 93% (451) |
| 2023-24 | 472 | 26 | 18.1:1 | 88% (417) |
| 2022-23 | 467 | 25 | 18.7:1 | 91% (424) |
| 2020-21 | 555 | 27 | 20.6:1 | 97% (540) |
| 2017-18 | 674 | 29 | 23.2:1 | 85% (574) |
| 2015-16 | 717 | 29 | 24.7:1 | 79% (569) |
| 2010-11 | 607 | N/A | N/A | 74% (452) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Charles H. Kim Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 28% (674 to 483); teachers down 7% (29 to 27).
About Charles H. Kim Elementary
Charles H. Kim Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in California, with an address in Los Angeles. It enrolled 483 students in kindergarten through 5 for the 2024-25 school year.
Los Angeles Unified serves 406,887 students across 784 schools.
At 50%, Hispanic students outnumber all other groups at Charles H. Kim Elementary combined. Smaller groups are 40% Asian, 4% Black, 4% White, and 3% multiracial. The county population is about 48% Hispanic, within a few points of the school. By the diversity index, Charles H. Kim Elementary comes in at 59%.
Teacher staffing is 27 full-time equivalents, or about 17.9 students per teacher. Among elementary schools in California, the typical ratio is 22.3:1. About 93% of students, or 451, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 70% for public schools in Los Angeles County.
allk12 grades Charles H. Kim Elementary an A. The grade compares the school only with California public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Charles H. Kim Elementary outperforms its prediction by 38.3 points. The model expects 24.8% for a school with its free or reduced-price lunch share in California; the school's rate is 63.1%.
In the county around the school, Los Angeles County, median household income is about $90,112, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. A total of 2,244 public schools operate in Los Angeles County, serving about 1,265,907 students.
Cahuenga Elementary is located about 0.2 miles from Charles H. Kim Elementary. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 39.1% proficiency; Charles H. Kim Elementary posts 63.1%.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 555 to 483. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 17.9:1, from 20.6:1.
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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 Charles H. Kim ElementaryHow many students attend Charles H. Kim Elementary?
Charles H. Kim Elementary enrolls approximately 483 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Charles H. Kim Elementary serve?
Charles H. Kim Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Charles H. Kim Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Charles H. Kim Elementary is approximately 17.9:1 (27 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Charles H. Kim Elementary?
Charles H. Kim Elementary reports a student body of 4% White, 50% Hispanic, 4% Black, 40% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Charles H. Kim Elementary?
Charles H. Kim Elementary is overseen by Los Angeles Unified in Los Angeles County.
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