Hazeltine Avenue Elementary

Set in Van Nuys, California, Hazeltine Avenue Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community, part of Los Angeles Unified. It hosts 621 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 34% above typical.

Hazeltine Avenue Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that instructs 406,887 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Hazeltine Avenue Elementary reports that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 6% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.4:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 94% of students at Hazeltine Avenue Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hazeltine Avenue Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.4%, the actual is 32.5%, a residual of +9.2 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put 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 Hazeltine Avenue Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Andres and Maria Cardenas Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hazeltine Avenue Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hazeltine Avenue Elementary at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 31.9%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 21%: 789 students in 2018 compared to 621 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 23.2:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.