Danube Avenue Elementary

Danube Avenue Elementary operates as a cozy primary school in Granada Hills, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 259 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 44% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students total), Danube Avenue Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Danube Avenue Elementary logs that 73% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 11% multiracial, 8% White, 5% Asian, 2% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.5:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 81% of students at Danube Avenue Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Danube Avenue Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.4%, the actual is 33.0%, a residual of +1.6 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household income runs about $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Danube Avenue Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Haskell Elem Sci Tech Engr Arts And Math (STEAM) Magnet, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Danube Avenue Elementary comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 45.6%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Danube Avenue Elementary's enrollment has contracted 36% since 2018, when it stood at 405 (now 259). The Hispanic share of enrollment contracted from 78% to 73% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 today.

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