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What's the biggest difference between Lake Los Angeles Elementary and what you expected?
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Enrollment
533
Elementary
DISTRICT 512 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KEPPEL UNION ELEMENTARY·NCES 061944008861
Lake Los Angeles Elementary
16310 East Avenue Q, Palmdale, CA 93591 · (661) 264-3700 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL533 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 0% of California public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-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
23.2:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 25.2:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
340 students
DISTRICT 67% · 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 | 47 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 57 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 54 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 66 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 66 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 71 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 63 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 46 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 63 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 25% smaller than its 8th grade class (63).
Student demographics
18%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 20% · 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
20.1%
CA avg 49.1% . -11.9pp since 2014
Math
12.2%
CA avg 37.7% . -7.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 12 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 8 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 4.9% | 15.1% | 23.8% | 56.1% |
| Math | 0.9% | 11.3% | 25.9% | 61.9% |
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 | 20.1% | 12.2% |
| 2023-24 | 21.3% | 11.6% |
| 2022-23 | 23.4% | 9.5% |
| 2021-22 | 27.6% | 15.7% |
| 2018-19 | 28.9% | 21.7% |
| 2017-18 | 31.2% | 21.8% |
| 2016-17 | 29.7% | 20.8% |
| 2015-16 | 30.0% | 21.0% |
| 2014-15 | 32.0% | 20.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
16.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.2%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-26.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 42% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Lake Los Angeles Elementary
Lake Los Angeles Elementary's state test result (16.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Los Angeles Elementary this school | 533 | 63.8% | 16.2% |
| Alpine Elementary Littlerock | 591 | 64.8% | 20.3% |
| Multicultural Learning Center Canoga Park | 496 | 60.5% | N/A |
| Teofilo Mendoza San Diego | 468 | 65.4% | 21.7% |
| Buena Vista/ Horace Mann K-8 San Francisco | 586 | 65.7% | 22.1% |
| EJE Elementary Academy Charter El Cajon | 582 | 67.0% | N/A |
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 Lake Los Angeles Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.2% | #4,871 of 5,151 | #1,112 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.2% | #4,936 of 5,172 ▼ 1 | #1,117 of 1,129 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 20.1% | #4,833 of 5,172 ▼ 213 | #1,104 of 1,129 ▼ 33 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -5.6pp | #475 of 5,116 | #74 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 533 | #2,057 of 5,915 | #412 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.2:1 | #3,123 of 5,352 | #757 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 17.5% | #4,566 of 5,354 | #925 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.8% | #3,291 of 5,625 | #907 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.9% | #827 of 1,139 | #136 of 181 |
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
533
+18 (+3%) vs 2020
-5% since 1990-91, when it was 561
Student : Teacher
23.2:1
was 24.5:1
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 | 533 | 23 | 23.2:1 | 64% (340) |
| 2023-24 | 508 | 22 | 23.1:1 | 87% (441) |
| 2022-23 | 474 | 20.4 | 23.3:1 | 74% (349) |
| 2020-21 | 515 | 21 | 24.5:1 | 93% (480) |
| 2017-18 | 513 | 20.5 | 25.0:1 | 88% (452) |
| 2015-16 | 501 | 20 | 25.1:1 | 88% (442) |
| 2010-11 | 458 | N/A | N/A | 91% (416) |
| 2000-01 | 546 | 24 | 22.8:1 | 75% (412) |
| 1990-91 | 561 | 20 | 28.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lake Los Angeles Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (513 to 533); teachers up 12% (20.5 to 23).
About Lake Los Angeles Elementary
Lake Los Angeles Elementary is a public medium-sized elementary school in Palmdale, California. It enrolled 533 students in kindergarten through 8 for the 2024-25 school year.
Across its 6 schools, Keppel Union Elementary enrolls 2,784 students. Lake Los Angeles Elementary is one of those schools.
The large majority of students at Lake Los Angeles Elementary, 91%, are Hispanic. The rest of enrollment is 5% White and 3% Black. Among all residents of Los Angeles County, the Hispanic share is about 48%. By the diversity index, Lake Los Angeles Elementary comes in at 18%.
Lake Los Angeles Elementary employs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 23.2:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in California is 22.3:1, lower than at this school. Lake Los Angeles Elementary's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 64%.
The allk12 Grade for Lake Los Angeles Elementary is F. Compared with California public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 0% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, Lake Los Angeles Elementary is among the bottom 10% of schools in California. Predicted: 42.2%. Actual: 16.2%.
Los Angeles County has about 9,808,667 residents, and median household income is about $90,112, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 2,244 public schools in Los Angeles County, with a combined enrollment of about 1,265,907.
Of nearby public schools, Vista San Gabriel Elementary is the closest, at about 2.6 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are 3 other public schools. The school's 16.2% average proficiency ranks 6th among 8 nearby schools.
Under the NCES locale system, Lake Los Angeles Elementary is Rural: Distant.
Federal counts put enrollment at 515 in 2020-21 and 533 in 2024-25, a 3% gain. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (23.2:1) than in 2020-21 (24.5:1).
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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 Keppel Union Elementary
- Daisy Gibson ElementaryElementary · 714 students
- Alpine ElementaryElementary · 591 students
- Pearblossom ElementaryElementary · 435 students
- Antelope ElementaryElementary · 286 students
- Keppel AcademyMiddle · 225 students
- Desert View Community DayElementary
Other schools in Palmdale
- Highland HighHigh · 2,706 students
- William J. (Pete) Knight HighHigh · 2,349 students
- Palmdale Aerospace AcademyCombined · 2,259 students
- Palmdale HighHigh · 2,208 students
- Hillview MiddleMiddle · 1,100 students
- Antelope Valley Learning AcademyCombined · 1,059 students
Nearby schools
- Vista San Gabriel Elementary2.6 mi · 465
- Wilsona Elementary3.7 mi · 403
- Challenger Middle3.8 mi · 403
- Littlerock High5.7 mi · 1,507
- Antelope Elementary6.8 mi · 286
- Daisy Gibson Elementary6.9 mi · 714
Frequently asked questions
About Lake Los Angeles ElementaryHow large is Lake Los Angeles Elementary?
Lake Los Angeles Elementary enrolls approximately 533 students in grades KG-08.
Is Lake Los Angeles Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Lake Los Angeles Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
How many students per teacher at Lake Los Angeles Elementary?
Approximately 23.2:1 students per teacher at Lake Los Angeles Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Lake Los Angeles Elementary?
Student demographics at Lake Los Angeles Elementary are roughly 5% White, 91% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Two or more.
Is Lake Los Angeles Elementary public or private?
Lake Los Angeles Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Keppel Union Elementary.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.