Coldwater Canyon Elementary

Set in North Hollywood, California, Coldwater Canyon Elementary is a mid-tier K-5 school, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. It works with 570 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 23% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

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

On the student-mix side, Coldwater Canyon Elementary lists that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 8% multiracial, 5% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, On paper, Coldwater Canyon Elementary has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Coldwater Canyon Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.7%; this one delivers 31.5%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Coldwater Canyon Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: James Madison Middle, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Coldwater Canyon Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Coldwater Canyon Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 33.0%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Coldwater Canyon Elementary's enrollment has edged down 28% since 2018, when it stood at 793 (now 570). White enrollment moved from 10% to 5% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Coldwater Canyon Elementary typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.