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What's the one class at Gil Garcetti Learning Academy every student should take?
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Enrollment
519
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOS ANGELES UNIFIED·NCES 062271003357
Gil Garcetti Learning Academy
612 West 68th St., Los Angeles, CA 90044 · (323) 753-2133 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL519 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 79% of California public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+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
20.0:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
510 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 | 104 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 66 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 88 | 17% |
| Grade 6 | 52 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (104) is 100% larger than its 6th grade class (52).
Student demographics
24%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
Gil Garcetti Learning Academy→Mary McLeod Bethune Middle
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
40.3%
CA avg 49.1% . +23.3pp since 2014
Math
37.2%
CA avg 37.7% . +24.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 23 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 24 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 20.1% | 20.1% | 20.1% | 39.5% |
| Math | 21.5% | 15.7% | 26.1% | 36.8% |
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 | 40.3% | 37.2% |
| 2023-24 | 41.2% | 40.8% |
| 2022-23 | 36.4% | 34.2% |
| 2021-22 | 33.9% | 23.9% |
| 2018-19 | 25.0% | 25.4% |
| 2017-18 | 21.3% | 20.4% |
| 2016-17 | 19.9% | 15.7% |
| 2015-16 | 25.0% | 11.0% |
| 2014-15 | 17.0% | 13.0% |
% 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
40.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.0%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 22% 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 19 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 Gil Garcetti Learning Academy
Gil Garcetti Learning Academy's state test result (40.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gil Garcetti Learning Academy this school | 519 | 98.3% | 40.6% |
| Sixty-First Street Elementary Los Angeles | 541 | 98.9% | 37.7% |
| Gerald A. Lawson Acad of the Arts Math and Sci Los Angeles | 480 | 98.5% | 18.1% |
| Lincoln Elementary San Bernardino | 531 | 98.1% | 13.5% |
| Menlo Avenue Elementary Los Angeles | 531 | 98.9% | 35.4% |
| Prosperity Elementary Bakersfield | 543 | 98.5% | 24.3% |
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 Gil Garcetti Learning Academy ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.6% | #2,433 of 5,151 | #587 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.2% | #2,531 of 5,172 ▼ 412 | #634 of 1,129 ▼ 134 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.3% | #2,905 of 5,172 ▼ 300 | #695 of 1,129 ▼ 85 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +9.8pp | #640 of 5,116 | #237 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 519 | #2,208 of 5,915 | #444 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.0:1 | #919 of 5,352 | #285 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 23.6% | #4,239 of 5,354 | #806 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.3% | #72 of 5,625 | #43 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -35.6% | #265 of 3,837 | #128 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
519
-126 (-20%) vs 2020
-56% since 1990-91, when it was 1,175
Student : Teacher
20.0:1
was 21.5:1
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 | 519 | 26 | 20.0:1 | 98% (510) |
| 2023-24 | 513 | 27 | 19.0:1 | 99% (508) |
| 2022-23 | 547 | 28 | 19.5:1 | 98% (535) |
| 2020-21 | 645 | 30 | 21.5:1 | 98% (632) |
| 2017-18 | 806 | 35 | 23.0:1 | 95% (769) |
| 2015-16 | 857 | 35 | 24.5:1 | 91% (781) |
| 2010-11 | 1,058 | N/A | N/A | 54% (572) |
| 2000-01 | 1,159 | 61 | 19.0:1 | 99% (1,145) |
| 1990-91 | 1,175 | 48 | 24.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Gil Garcetti Learning Academy.
Since 2017-18: students down 36% (806 to 519); teachers down 26% (35 to 26).
About Gil Garcetti Learning Academy
Gil Garcetti Learning Academy operates as a mid-sized elementary school in Los Angeles, California. In all, 519 students attend the school in kindergarten through 6.
Besides Gil Garcetti Learning Academy, Los Angeles Unified runs 783 other schools. The district enrolls 406,887 students.
Roughly 87% of students at Gil Garcetti Learning Academy are Hispanic. Other groups include 11% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County residents are about 48% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Gil Garcetti Learning Academy scores 24%.
On staff are 26 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 20.0:1. Elementary schools in California average 22.3:1, 2.3 more students per teacher than here. Gil Garcetti Learning Academy has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 98%. On average, public schools in Los Angeles County report 70%.
Gil Garcetti Learning Academy holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 79% of California public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations places Gil Garcetti Learning Academy in the top 10% of California schools. The measure fits a line through proficiency and free or reduced-price lunch share for each state, and this school sits 18.6 points above it (40.6% actual, 22.0% predicted).
Census data for Los Angeles County show median household income comes to about $90,112, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. There are 2,244 public schools in the county, enrolling about 1,265,907, Gil Garcetti Learning Academy among them.
Gil Garcetti Learning Academy's closest public school neighbor is Gerald A. Lawson Acad of the Arts Math and Sci, about 0.4 miles away. The five-mile area around Gil Garcetti Learning Academy holds at least 8 other public schools. Gil Garcetti Learning Academy ranks 1st of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 40.6% against a local average of 24.7%.
NCES assigns Gil Garcetti Learning Academy the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
A 20% decline took enrollment from 645 in 2020-21 to 519 in 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (20.0:1) than in 2020-21 (21.5:1).
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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 Gil Garcetti Learning AcademyHow many students attend Gil Garcetti Learning Academy?
Gil Garcetti Learning Academy enrolls approximately 519 students in grades KG-06.
Is Gil Garcetti Learning Academy an elementary, middle, or high school?
Gil Garcetti Learning Academy is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many students per teacher at Gil Garcetti Learning Academy?
Approximately 20.0:1 students per teacher at Gil Garcetti Learning Academy.
How diverse is Gil Garcetti Learning Academy?
Gil Garcetti Learning Academy reports a student body of 0% White, 87% Hispanic, 11% Black, 2% Two or more.
What district is Gil Garcetti Learning Academy in?
Gil Garcetti Learning Academy is part of Los Angeles Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.