Julie Korenstein Elementary

Julie Korenstein Elementary is a tight-knit elementary-level community in North Hollywood, California, run under Los Angeles Unified. The school serves 311 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 33% below the state mean of about 465.

Julie Korenstein Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that hosts 406,887 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Julie Korenstein Elementary lists that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 4% White, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Julie Korenstein Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.7%.

In the surrounding community, Los Angeles County reports that median household earnings sit near $90,112, 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 Julie Korenstein Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Strathern Street Elementary, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Julie Korenstein Elementary comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Julie Korenstein Elementary's enrollment has edged down 31% since 2018, when it stood at 452 (now 311). Over the same period, the Hispanic share shrank from 93% to 87%. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 in 2025.

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