Harding Street Elementary

Harding Street Elementary operates as a close-knit primary school in Sylmar, California, overseen by Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 357 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 23% smaller than the state mean of about 465.

Across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students total), Harding Street Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Harding Street Elementary logs that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder breaks down as 3% White, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Harding Street Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Harding Street Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.3%.

In the area at large, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Harding Street Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Vista del Valle Dual Language Academy, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Harding Street Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 29.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Harding Street Elementary's enrollment has edged down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 424 (now 357). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.3:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 today.

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