Lemay Street Elementary
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Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 17 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Lemay Street Elementary
Lemay Street Elementary operates as a close-knit primary school in Lake Balboa, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 334 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Lemay Street Elementary sits 28% leaner than that benchmark.
Across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students total), Lemay Street Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, Lemay Street Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%). Beyond that, the school lists 6% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 92% of students at Lemay Street 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%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lemay Street Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.7%; this one delivers 34.9%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records that median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Lemay Street Elementary is one campus in the mix.
William Mulholland Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lemay Street Elementary comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 33.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lemay Street Elementary has declined 18%, going from 407 students in 2018 to 334 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 11% to 6%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 today.
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