Kittridge Street Elementary

Located at 13619 Kittridge St., in Van Nuys, California, Kittridge Street Elementary is a large K-5 school that works with 768 students (grades K through 5), part of Los Angeles Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Kittridge Street Elementary sits 65% larger than that benchmark.

Kittridge Street Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that teaches 406,887 students overall.

Demographically, Kittridge Street Elementary records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 58%. Beyond that, the school logs 35% White, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Kittridge Street Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.0%, the actual is 26.4%, a residual of +2.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household income runs about $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%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Kittridge Street Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Erwin Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kittridge Street Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 31.1%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Kittridge Street Elementary's enrollment has shrank 7% since 2018, when it stood at 826 (now 768). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged down from 77% to 58% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 23.6:1 in 2018 to 22.3:1 in 2025.

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