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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Darby Avenue Elementary administration to hear?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
412
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOS ANGELES UNIFIED·NCES 062271002949
Darby Avenue Elementary
10818 Darby Ave., Northridge, CA 91326 · (818) 360-1824 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL412 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 87% 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.
- ABeats 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
22.9:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
227 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 | 100 | 24% |
| Grade 1 | 45 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 72 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (100) is 61% larger than its 5th grade class (62).
Student demographics
70%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
65.1%
CA avg 49.1% . +5.1pp since 2014
Math
61.3%
CA avg 37.7% . +2.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 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 5 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 2 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 39.6% | 25.5% | 19.3% | 15.6% |
| Math | 35.0% | 26.3% | 24.2% | 14.4% |
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 | 65.1% | 61.3% |
| 2023-24 | 63.8% | 68.6% |
| 2022-23 | 67.4% | 62.8% |
| 2021-22 | 68.8% | 60.3% |
| 2018-19 | 68.1% | 63.5% |
| 2017-18 | 66.5% | 60.8% |
| 2016-17 | 53.5% | 53.7% |
| 2015-16 | 60.0% | 53.0% |
| 2014-15 | 60.0% | 59.0% |
% 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
64.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.3%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 47% 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 18 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 Darby Avenue Elementary
Darby Avenue Elementary's state test result (64.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darby Avenue Elementary this school | 412 | 55.1% | 64.8% |
| Laurel Elem Magnet Sch of Innovation and Career Explr Brea | 434 | 54.6% | 47.5% |
| John McCandless Charter Stockton | 434 | 58.5% | 45.3% |
| High Tech Elementary North County San Marcos | 438 | 50.2% | N/A |
| Castlemont Elementary Campbell | 436 | 50.9% | 33.5% |
| Fern Drive Elementary Fullerton | 372 | 59.7% | 44.8% |
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 Darby Avenue Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.8% | #889 of 5,151 | #199 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.3% | #1,001 of 5,172 ▼ 327 | #233 of 1,129 ▼ 84 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.1% | #1,013 of 5,172 ▲ 19 | #230 of 1,129 ▲ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.3pp | #1,403 of 5,116 | #225 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 412 | #3,534 of 5,915 | #744 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.9:1 | #2,902 of 5,352 | #731 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.8% | #656 of 5,354 | #105 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.1% | #3,685 of 5,625 | #964 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.7% | #2,330 of 3,837 | #668 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
412
-21 (-5%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 552
Student : Teacher
22.9:1
was 21.6:1
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 | 412 | 18 | 22.9:1 | 55% (227) |
| 2023-24 | 390 | 19 | 20.5:1 | 56% (220) |
| 2022-23 | 406 | 18 | 22.6:1 | 52% (211) |
| 2020-21 | 433 | 20 | 21.6:1 | 52% (227) |
| 2017-18 | 472 | 21 | 22.5:1 | 51% (242) |
| 2015-16 | 511 | 21 | 24.3:1 | 39% (200) |
| 2010-11 | 451 | N/A | N/A | 35% (156) |
| 2000-01 | 518 | 31 | 16.7:1 | 42% (219) |
| 1990-91 | 552 | 25 | 22.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Darby Avenue Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (472 to 412); teachers down 14% (21 to 18).
About Darby Avenue Elementary
Federal records list Darby Avenue Elementary as an elementary school in Northridge, California. Students in kindergarten through 5 attend, and enrollment is 412 students.
The district, Los Angeles Unified, has 406,887 students enrolled across 784 schools.
At Darby Avenue Elementary, the largest share of students is Hispanic, at 46%. After that, the student body is 19% White, 17% multiracial, 14% Asian, and 3% Black. For comparison, Los Angeles County is about 48% Hispanic. The school's diversity index is 70%, meaning two students picked at random have a 70% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The teaching staff at Darby Avenue Elementary is 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 22.9:1. For comparison, elementary schools in California average 22.3:1. About 55% of students, or 227, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is lower than the 70% average for public schools in Los Angeles County.
Measured against California public elementary schools, Darby Avenue Elementary receives an A. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Test results at Darby Avenue Elementary are 17.6 points above what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate on state tests is 64.8%, compared with a predicted 47.3%, which ranks in the top 10% in California.
Census estimates describe Los Angeles County this way: the median household income is $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%. In all, Los Angeles County has 2,244 public schools and roughly 1,265,907 students.
Nearby, Granada Hills Charter is about 0.6 miles away. Within five miles of Darby Avenue Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. Darby Avenue Elementary is 4th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
NCES assigns Darby Avenue Elementary the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment has fallen by 21 students since 2020-21, to 412. The school's ratio rose from 21.6:1 to 22.9:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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
Quick facts
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- Granada Elementary1.4 mi · 370
- Topeka Charter School for Advanced Studies1.5 mi · 610
Frequently asked questions
About Darby Avenue ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Darby Avenue Elementary?
Darby Avenue Elementary enrolls approximately 412 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Darby Avenue Elementary serve?
Darby Avenue Elementary serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Darby Avenue Elementary have?
Darby Avenue Elementary employs 18 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 22.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Darby Avenue Elementary?
Student demographics at Darby Avenue Elementary are roughly 19% White, 46% Hispanic, 3% Black, 14% Asian, 17% Two or more.
What district is Darby Avenue Elementary in?
Darby Avenue Elementary is part of Los Angeles Unified.
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