Enrollment
325
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOS ANGELES UNIFIED·NCES 062271003026
Fries Avenue Elementary
1301 Fries Ave., Wilmington, CA 90744 · (310) 834-6431 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL325 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 31% of California public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-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
18.1:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
293 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 | 73 | 22% |
| Grade 1 | 47 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 41 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 39 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (73) is 87% larger than its 5th grade class (39).
Student demographics
18%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
Fries Avenue Elementary→Wilmington Mid Sci Tech Engr Arts Math (STEAM) Magnet→Phineas Banning Senior High
Based on published attendance-zone data from Los Angeles Unified. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
25.6%
CA avg 49.1% . +9.6pp since 2014
Math
27.5%
CA avg 37.7% . +13.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 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 10 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 14 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 13.1% | 12.4% | 27.0% | 47.5% |
| Math | 12.3% | 15.2% | 21.0% | 51.5% |
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 | 25.6% | 27.5% |
| 2023-24 | 22.4% | 18.8% |
| 2022-23 | 20.5% | 18.3% |
| 2021-22 | 12.5% | 13.0% |
| 2018-19 | 25.3% | 27.5% |
| 2017-18 | 25.4% | 25.2% |
| 2016-17 | 28.3% | 32.1% |
| 2015-16 | 26.0% | 20.0% |
| 2014-15 | 16.0% | 14.0% |
% 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
24.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.7%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% 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 Fries Avenue Elementary
Fries Avenue Elementary's state test result (24.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fries Avenue Elementary this school | 325 | 90.2% | 24.2% |
| Lydia Jackson College Preparatory Academy Whittier | 338 | 89.3% | 35.7% |
| Osceola Street Elementary Sylmar | 352 | 90.1% | 40.0% |
| Morris K. Hamasaki Elementary Los Angeles | 316 | 91.1% | 51.0% |
| Kellogg Polytechnic Elementary Pomona | 302 | 88.7% | 25.3% |
| Melbourne (Ella P.) Elementary Lakewood | 338 | 92.3% | 30.3% |
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 Fries Avenue Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.2% | #4,169 of 5,151 | #1,015 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.5% | #3,467 of 5,172 ▲ 841 | #892 of 1,129 ▲ 141 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.6% | #4,431 of 5,172 ▲ 98 | #1,042 of 1,129 ▲ 9 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +13.8pp | #245 of 5,116 | #98 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 325 | #4,522 of 5,915 | #993 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.1:1 | #271 of 5,352 | #79 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 17.9% | #4,544 of 5,354 | #914 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.2% | #1,088 of 5,625 | #445 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -38.0% | #195 of 3,837 | #97 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
325
-64 (-16%) vs 2020
-74% since 1990-91, when it was 1,230
Student : Teacher
18.1:1
was 20.5:1
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 | 325 | 18 | 18.1:1 | 90% (293) |
| 2023-24 | 330 | 19 | 17.4:1 | 94% (309) |
| 2022-23 | 358 | 19 | 18.8:1 | 94% (335) |
| 2020-21 | 389 | 19 | 20.5:1 | 96% (374) |
| 2017-18 | 524 | 25 | 21.0:1 | 90% (473) |
| 2015-16 | 514 | 24 | 21.4:1 | 89% (460) |
| 2010-11 | 736 | N/A | N/A | 91% (671) |
| 2000-01 | 1,292 | 63 | 20.5:1 | 89% (1,153) |
| 1990-91 | 1,230 | 47 | 26.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fries Avenue Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 38% (524 to 325); teachers down 28% (25 to 18).
About Fries Avenue Elementary
Fries Avenue Elementary is a small elementary school in California, with an address in Wilmington. Total enrollment is 325 students, and the grades served are kindergarten through 5. Elementary schools in California have about 465 students on average; enrollment here is 30% lower.
In Los Angeles Unified, 784 schools enroll a combined 406,887 students.
Hispanic students are 90% of those enrolled at Fries Avenue Elementary. Next come 4% multiracial and 2% Black. That compares with about 48% Hispanic among all Los Angeles County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 18%.
Fries Avenue Elementary has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.1:1. The school's 18.1:1 compares with an average of 22.3:1 for elementary schools in California. The school has 90% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 70% average for public schools in Los Angeles County is 20 points lower.
Fries Avenue Elementary holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 31% of California public elementary schools.
After adjusting for student poverty, Fries Avenue Elementary lands between the top and bottom 10% of California schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 24.2%; the prediction is 26.7%.
In Los Angeles County, home to about 9,808,667 people, the median household earns about $90,112 a year, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Los Angeles County number 2,244, with about 1,265,907 students.
A public school about 0.3 miles away, Harry Bridges Span, is the closest to Fries Avenue Elementary. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Fries Avenue Elementary. In a group of 6 nearby schools with scores, Fries Avenue Elementary ranks 6th on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Fries Avenue Elementary is coded City: Large, for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count decreased 16% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. The school's ratio dropped from 20.5:1 to 18.1:1 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
Related schools
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- James A. Garfield Senior HighHigh · 2,237 students
Other schools in Wilmington
- Phineas Banning Senior HighHigh · 2,422 students
- Harry Bridges SpanElementary · 1,171 students
- Wilmington Mid Sci Tech Engr Arts Math (STEAM) MagnetMiddle · 1,121 students
- Gulf Avenue ElementaryElementary · 634 students
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- Wilmington Park ElementaryElementary · 472 students
Nearby schools
- Harry Bridges Span0.3 mi · 1,171
- Dan M. Issacs Avalon High0.3 mi · 48
- Gulf Avenue Elementary0.4 mi · 634
- Phineas Banning Senior High0.5 mi · 2,422
- Wilmington Mid Sci Tech Engr Arts Math (STEAM) Magnet0.8 mi · 1,121
- Scholarship Prep - South Bay0.8 mi · 421
Frequently asked questions
About Fries Avenue ElementaryHow large is Fries Avenue Elementary?
Fries Avenue Elementary enrolls approximately 325 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Fries Avenue Elementary serve?
Fries Avenue Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Fries Avenue Elementary?
Approximately 18.1:1 students per teacher at Fries Avenue Elementary.
How diverse is Fries Avenue Elementary?
Fries Avenue Elementary reports a student body of 1% White, 90% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Fries Avenue Elementary in?
Fries Avenue Elementary is part of Los Angeles Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.