El Dorado Avenue Elementary

Located at 12749 El Dorado Ave., in Sylmar, California, El Dorado Avenue Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school that teaches 364 students (grades K through 5), run under Los Angeles Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so El Dorado Avenue Elementary sits 22% leaner than that benchmark.

Los Angeles Unified comprises 784 schools with combined enrollment of 406,887 students; El Dorado Avenue Elementary is among them.

On demographics, El Dorado Avenue Elementary shows that nearly all students (94%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 2% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), El Dorado Avenue Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.5%, the actual is 33.0%, a residual of +10.5 points.

In the area at large, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. El Dorado Avenue Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Herrick Avenue Elementary, roughly 0.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, El Dorado Avenue Elementary comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.4%.

El Dorado Avenue Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at El Dorado Avenue Elementary has ticked down 25%, going from 484 students in 2018 to 364 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.0:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 in 2025.

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