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If you could change one rule at Heliotrope Avenue Elementary, what would it be?
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Enrollment
462
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOS ANGELES UNIFIED·NCES 062271003078
Heliotrope Avenue Elementary
5911 Woodlawn Ave., Maywood, CA 90270 · (323) 560-1230 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL462 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 85% of California public elementary schools
- BTest 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.
- A+Three-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
19.3:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
442 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 | 97 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 77 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (97) is 45% larger than its 5th grade class (67).
Student demographics
6%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
Heliotrope Avenue Elementary→Chester W. Nimitz 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
47.1%
CA avg 49.1% . +28.1pp since 2014
Math
47.1%
CA avg 37.7% . +31.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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 28 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 31 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 22.1% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 27.9% |
| Math | 16.4% | 30.8% | 29.8% | 23.1% |
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 | 47.1% | 47.1% |
| 2023-24 | 40.3% | 37.6% |
| 2022-23 | 36.9% | 34.2% |
| 2021-22 | 38.8% | 27.1% |
| 2018-19 | 35.4% | 33.2% |
| 2017-18 | 35.2% | 25.9% |
| 2016-17 | 29.3% | 27.7% |
| 2015-16 | 26.0% | 21.0% |
| 2014-15 | 19.0% | 16.0% |
% 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
43.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.5%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 23% 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 20 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 Heliotrope Avenue Elementary
Heliotrope Avenue Elementary's state test result (43.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heliotrope Avenue Elementary this school | 462 | 95.7% | 43.3% |
| Cesar E Chavez Elementary Parlier | 439 | 95.4% | 15.4% |
| West Putnam Elementary Porterville | 478 | 96.4% | 24.5% |
| Tipton Elementary Tipton | 485 | 94.6% | 32.8% |
| Jaime Escalante Elementary Cudahy | 453 | 95.1% | 47.9% |
| Roseland Elementary Santa Rosa | 471 | 94.3% | 32.1% |
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 Heliotrope Avenue Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.3% | #2,214 of 5,151 | #527 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.1% | #1,781 of 5,172 ▲ 598 | #421 of 1,129 ▲ 153 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.1% | #2,264 of 5,172 ▲ 435 | #534 of 1,129 ▲ 97 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +14.1pp | #223 of 5,116 | #93 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 462 | #2,886 of 5,915 | #586 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.3:1 | #621 of 5,352 | #190 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 5.9% | #5,156 of 5,354 | #1,143 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.7% | #356 of 5,625 | #179 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.9% | #696 of 3,837 | #290 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
462
-96 (-17%) vs 2020
-64% since 1990-91, when it was 1,282
Student : Teacher
19.3:1
was 20.7:1
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 | 462 | 24 | 19.3:1 | 96% (442) |
| 2023-24 | 487 | 25 | 19.5:1 | 95% (462) |
| 2022-23 | 491 | 26 | 18.9:1 | 94% (461) |
| 2020-21 | 558 | 27 | 20.7:1 | 93% (517) |
| 2017-18 | 641 | 30 | 21.4:1 | 93% (595) |
| 2015-16 | 716 | 30 | 23.9:1 | 91% (655) |
| 2010-11 | 835 | N/A | N/A | 41% (346) |
| 2000-01 | 1,360 | 68 | 20.0:1 | 100% (1,357) |
| 1990-91 | 1,282 | 50 | 25.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Heliotrope Avenue Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 28% (641 to 462); teachers down 20% (30 to 24).
About Heliotrope Avenue Elementary
Heliotrope Avenue Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school with an address in Maywood, California. The school serves kindergarten through 5. Enrollment is 462 students.
Los Angeles Unified is the district for Heliotrope Avenue Elementary. It has 784 schools and 406,887 students.
The share of Hispanic students at Heliotrope Avenue Elementary is 97%. The county population is about 48% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Heliotrope Avenue Elementary scores 6%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 19.3:1. The school has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California is 3.1 students per teacher. In all, 96% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 70% average for public schools in Los Angeles County, the school's rate is higher.
Among California public elementary schools, Heliotrope Avenue Elementary outscored 85%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
A school in California with Heliotrope Avenue Elementary's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 23.5%. Heliotrope Avenue Elementary scores 43.3%.
The school's county is Los Angeles County. According to Census Bureau estimates, 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. Los Angeles County's 2,244 public schools enroll about 1,265,907 students and include Heliotrope Avenue Elementary.
The closest school to Heliotrope Avenue Elementary is Maywood Center for Enriched Studies, located about 0.4 miles away. Heliotrope Avenue Elementary is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Heliotrope Avenue Elementary at 2nd of 8.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment figures show a decline of 96 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The school's ratio dropped from 20.7:1 to 19.3:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
Heliotrope Avenue Elementary has a community page on allk12 for topics such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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
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- Maywood Center for Enriched Studies0.4 mi · 1,093
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- Maywood Academy High0.7 mi · 1,012
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Frequently asked questions
About Heliotrope Avenue ElementaryHow large is Heliotrope Avenue Elementary?
Heliotrope Avenue Elementary enrolls approximately 462 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Heliotrope Avenue Elementary serve?
Heliotrope Avenue Elementary serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Heliotrope Avenue Elementary have?
Heliotrope Avenue Elementary employs 24 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Heliotrope Avenue Elementary?
Student demographics at Heliotrope Avenue Elementary are roughly 2% White, 97% Hispanic, 1% Black.
Who oversees Heliotrope Avenue Elementary?
Heliotrope Avenue Elementary is overseen by Los Angeles Unified in Los Angeles County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.