Enrollment
344
Elementary
DISTRICT 556 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TORRANCE UNIFIED·NCES 063942006581
Howard Wood Elementary
2250 West 235th St., Torrance, CA 90501 · (310) 533-4484 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL344 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 63% of California public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-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
21.6:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 25.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
146 students
DISTRICT 36% · STATE 65%
Community
0
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 | 87 | 25% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 41 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 58 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is 50% larger than its 5th grade class (58).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
54.1%
CA avg 49.1% . +2.1pp since 2014
Math
52.2%
CA avg 37.7% . +1.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 2 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 1 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 30.2% | 23.9% | 18.9% | 27.0% |
| Math | 30.2% | 22.0% | 29.6% | 18.2% |
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 | 54.1% | 52.2% |
| 2023-24 | 60.3% | 64.8% |
| 2022-23 | 66.2% | 70.1% |
| 2021-22 | 53.1% | 58.6% |
| 2018-19 | 56.2% | 62.4% |
| 2017-18 | 57.5% | 61.5% |
| 2016-17 | 49.2% | 54.0% |
| 2015-16 | 49.0% | 54.0% |
| 2014-15 | 52.0% | 51.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
57.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.7%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 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 Howard Wood Elementary
Howard Wood Elementary's state test result (57.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Howard Wood Elementary this school | 344 | 42.4% | 57.6% |
| Theuerkauf Elementary Mountain View | 308 | 38.6% | 39.6% |
| Westwood Elementary Santa Clara | 368 | 37.5% | 51.0% |
| Los Paseos Elementary San Jose | 403 | 40.4% | 41.2% |
| John Adams Elementary Torrance | 343 | 49.0% | 56.8% |
| Sunset Ridge Elementary Pacifica | 348 | 41.7% | 32.4% |
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 Howard Wood Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.6% | #1,247 of 5,151 | #283 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.2% | #1,449 of 5,172 ▼ 626 | #338 of 1,129 ▼ 160 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.1% | #1,741 of 5,172 ▼ 499 | #390 of 1,129 ▼ 115 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.7pp | #1,042 of 5,116 | #164 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 344 | #4,344 of 5,915 | #943 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.6:1 | #1,921 of 5,352 | #550 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.3% | #1,225 of 5,354 | #189 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.4% | #4,236 of 5,625 | #1,045 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.9% | #1,658 of 3,837 | #553 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
344
-43 (-11%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 404
Student : Teacher
21.6:1
was 19.4:1
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 | 344 | 15.9 | 21.6:1 | 42% (146) |
| 2023-24 | 379 | 17.7 | 21.4:1 | 44% (168) |
| 2022-23 | 343 | 17.5 | 19.6:1 | 38% (131) |
| 2020-21 | 387 | 20 | 19.4:1 | 32% (122) |
| 2017-18 | 419 | 17.8 | 23.5:1 | 38% (159) |
| 2015-16 | 402 | 15 | 26.8:1 | 39% (156) |
| 2010-11 | 355 | N/A | N/A | 32% (112) |
| 2000-01 | 433 | 23 | 18.8:1 | 16% (69) |
| 1990-91 | 404 | 18 | 22.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Howard Wood Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (419 to 344); teachers down 11% (17.8 to 15.9).
About Howard Wood Elementary
Howard Wood Elementary is a small elementary school in Torrance, California, one of the schools in Torrance Unified. It reported 344 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in California have about 465 students on average; enrollment here is 26% lower.
Torrance Unified has 21,890 students in 31 schools, and Howard Wood Elementary is one of those schools.
More than half of the students at Howard Wood Elementary are Hispanic (53%). Beyond that, enrollment is 20% Asian, 15% White, 10% multiracial, and 2% Black. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 65%.
With 15.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 21.6:1. The ratio is within a point of the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Howard Wood Elementary, 42% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Los Angeles County is 70%.
Among California public elementary schools, Howard Wood Elementary outscored 63%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
Schools in California with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 54.7%. Howard Wood Elementary scores 57.6%.
For the population of Los Angeles County, the median household earns about $90,112 a year, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Howard Wood Elementary shares Los Angeles County with 2,243 other public schools.
John Adams Elementary, about 0.3 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Among the 6 closest schools with test data, this one included, Howard Wood Elementary ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Mid-size: inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was an 11% decline, from 387 to 344. The ratio of students to teachers went from 19.4:1 to 21.6:1 over the same years.
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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
Related schools
Other schools in Torrance Unified
- Torrance HighHigh · 1,879 students
- North HighHigh · 1,812 students
- West HighHigh · 1,775 students
- South HighHigh · 1,734 students
- Victor ElementaryElementary · 965 students
- Hickory ElementaryElementary · 847 students
Other schools in Torrance
- Torrance HighHigh · 1,879 students
- North HighHigh · 1,812 students
- West HighHigh · 1,775 students
- South HighHigh · 1,734 students
- Victor ElementaryElementary · 965 students
- Hickory ElementaryElementary · 847 students
Nearby schools
- John Adams Elementary0.3 mi · 343
- J. H. Hull Middle0.3 mi · 621
- Shery (Kurt T.) High (Continuation)0.8 mi · 119
- Lomita Math/Science/Technology Magnet0.8 mi · 853
- Torrance Elementary0.8 mi · 567
- Hickory Elementary0.9 mi · 847
Frequently asked questions
About Howard Wood ElementaryHow many students attend Howard Wood Elementary?
Howard Wood Elementary enrolls approximately 344 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Howard Wood Elementary serve?
Howard Wood Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Howard Wood Elementary?
Approximately 21.6:1 students per teacher at Howard Wood Elementary.
How diverse is Howard Wood Elementary?
Howard Wood Elementary reports a student body of 15% White, 53% Hispanic, 2% Black, 20% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is Howard Wood Elementary public or private?
Howard Wood Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Torrance Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.