Enrollment
202
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOS ANGELES UNIFIED·NCES 062271003004
Fifty-Ninth Street Elementary
5939 Second Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90043 · (323) 294-5118 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL202 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 50% of California public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A+Three-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
16.8:1
12 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
188 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 65%
Community
0
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 | 38 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 28 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 24 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 47 | 23% |
| Grade 4 | 33 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 32 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (38) is 19% larger than its 5th grade class (32).
Student demographics
47%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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Fifty-Ninth Street Elementary→Horace Mann UCLA Community
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CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
29.7%
CA avg 49.1% . +17.7pp since 2014
Math
38.4%
CA avg 37.7% . +34.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 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 18 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 34 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 10.8% | 18.9% | 29.7% | 40.5% |
| Math | 18.8% | 19.6% | 29.5% | 32.1% |
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 | 29.7% | 38.4% |
| 2023-24 | 19.8% | 29.7% |
| 2022-23 | 15.7% | 12.8% |
| 2021-22 | 16.5% | 6.1% |
| 2018-19 | 25.2% | 13.1% |
| 2017-18 | 19.6% | 10.5% |
| 2016-17 | 13.3% | 6.2% |
| 2015-16 | 10.0% | 6.0% |
| 2014-15 | 12.0% | 4.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
29.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.0%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 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 Fifty-Ninth Street Elementary
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fifty-Ninth Street Elementary this school | 202 | 93.1% | 29.1% |
| Aspire College Academy Oakland | 206 | 96.1% | N/A |
| Stella Elementary Charter Academy Los Angeles | 258 | 91.9% | N/A |
| Fred T. Korematsu Discovery Academy Elementary Oakland | 180 | 98.3% | 10.3% |
| Community School for Creative Education Oakland | 183 | 89.1% | N/A |
| Madison Park Academy Elementary Oakland | 241 | 98.8% | 25.9% |
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 Fifty-Ninth Street Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.1% | #3,630 of 5,151 | #910 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.4% | #2,414 of 5,172 ▲ 700 | #606 of 1,129 ▲ 175 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.7% | #4,015 of 5,172 ▲ 736 | #970 of 1,129 ▲ 122 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +22.7pp | #28 of 5,116 | #15 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 202 | #5,345 of 5,915 | #1,214 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.8:1 | #117 of 5,352 | #34 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.6% | #3,026 of 5,354 | #501 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.1% | #693 of 5,625 | #315 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -36.5% | #234 of 3,837 | #114 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
202
-39 (-16%) vs 2020
-59% since 1990-91, when it was 487
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
was 18.5:1
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 | 202 | 12 | 16.8:1 | 93% (188) |
| 2023-24 | 207 | 15 | 13.8:1 | 92% (191) |
| 2022-23 | 213 | 11 | 19.4:1 | 93% (198) |
| 2020-21 | 241 | 13 | 18.5:1 | 96% (231) |
| 2017-18 | 318 | 17 | 18.7:1 | 92% (291) |
| 2015-16 | 361 | 16 | 22.6:1 | 91% (329) |
| 2010-11 | 374 | N/A | N/A | 40% (150) |
| 2000-01 | 487 | 30 | 16.2:1 | 92% (447) |
| 1990-91 | 487 | 25 | 19.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fifty-Ninth Street Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 36% (318 to 202); teachers down 29% (17 to 12).
About Fifty-Ninth Street Elementary
Fifty-Ninth Street Elementary is a public elementary school in Los Angeles, California. Classes run from kindergarten through 5, and the school has 202 students. Against the 465-student average for elementary schools in California, enrollment here is 57% lower.
In Los Angeles Unified, 784 schools enroll a combined 406,887 students.
At Fifty-Ninth Street Elementary, Hispanic students make up 69% of the student body. After that, the student body is 22% Black and 8% multiracial. Census figures show Los Angeles County is about 48% Hispanic. The school's diversity index is 47%, meaning two students picked at random have a 47% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Federal data list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers at Fifty-Ninth Street Elementary in 2024-25, for a ratio of 16.8:1. That is 5.5 students per teacher below the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 93%. Public schools in Los Angeles County average 70%.
Measured against California public elementary schools, Fifty-Ninth Street Elementary receives a B-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Fifty-Ninth Street Elementary is 4.1 points above its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (29.1% versus 25.0%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in California.
Los Angeles County has these Census figures: the median household income is $90,112, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. In all, Los Angeles County has 2,244 public schools and roughly 1,265,907 students.
Alliance Ouchi-O'Donovan 6-12 Complex is the public school closest to Fifty-Ninth Street Elementary, about 0.5 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Large, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Fifty-Ninth Street Elementary's enrollment declined from 241 in 2020-21 to 202 in 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 16.8:1, from 18.5:1.
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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
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Frequently asked questions
About Fifty-Ninth Street ElementaryHow many students attend Fifty-Ninth Street Elementary?
Fifty-Ninth Street Elementary enrolls approximately 202 students in grades KG-05.
Is Fifty-Ninth Street Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Fifty-Ninth Street Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Fifty-Ninth Street Elementary have?
Fifty-Ninth Street Elementary employs 12 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Fifty-Ninth Street Elementary?
Student demographics at Fifty-Ninth Street Elementary are roughly 1% White, 69% Hispanic, 22% Black, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Fifty-Ninth Street Elementary?
Fifty-Ninth Street Elementary is overseen by Los Angeles Unified in Los Angeles County.
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