Coeur D'Alene Avenue Elementary

As a low-enrollment K-5 school in Venice, California, Coeur D'Alene Avenue Elementary serves 295 students from grades K through 5, part of Los Angeles Unified. That puts it 37% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Coeur D'Alene Avenue Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that educates 406,887 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Coeur D'Alene Avenue Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 30% multiracial, 18% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 3% Black. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

On the income-and-resources front, Coeur D'Alene Avenue Elementary shows 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.7:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Coeur D'Alene Avenue Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.7%; this one delivers 68.6%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Coeur D'Alene Avenue Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Venice Senior High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Coeur D'Alene Avenue Elementary at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 56.0%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 50%: 594 students in 2018 compared to 295 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 61% to 42%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.3:1 in 2018 to 22.7:1 today.

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