Herrick Avenue Elementary

Herrick Avenue Elementary is a K-5 school of small scale in Sylmar, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified, teacheing 379 students in grades K through 5.

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

On the student-mix side, Herrick Avenue Elementary lists that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 4% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Herrick Avenue Elementary logs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Herrick Avenue Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 27.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.1%.

In the area at large, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Herrick Avenue Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: PUC Triumph Charter Academy and PUC Triumph Charter High, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Herrick Avenue Elementary comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 37.2%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 28%: 527 students in 2018 compared to 379 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 22.0:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 today.

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