Hart Street Elementary

Hart Street Elementary is a K-5 school of sprawling scale in Canoga Park, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified, instructing 699 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 50% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Hart Street Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Hart Street Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%). Beyond that, the school shows 4% multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% Black, 2% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Hart Street Elementary logs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hart Street Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 25.4%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Hart Street Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Owensmouth Continuation, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hart Street Elementary at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 28.4%.

Hart Street Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hart Street Elementary has decreased 8%, going from 756 students in 2018 to 699 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 21.8:1 in 2025.

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