Lankershim Elementary

Lankershim Elementary operates as a small primary school in North Hollywood, California, run under Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 326 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Lankershim Elementary sits 30% leaner than that benchmark.

Los Angeles Unified comprises 784 schools with combined enrollment of 406,887 students; Lankershim Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Lankershim Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 67% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 11% White, 10% Black, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, Lankershim Elementary records 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 93% of students at Lankershim Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, Lankershim Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 24.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.4%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate 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%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Lankershim Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: East Valley Senior High, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lankershim Elementary at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 48.7%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 21%: 414 students in 2018 compared to 326 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share decreased from 78% to 67%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 today.

Inside the community feed, members of the Lankershim Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.