Leona H. Cox Community Elementary

Leona H. Cox Community Elementary is one of the medium-sized K-5 schools in Canyon Country, California, overseen by Sulphur Springs Union, with 459 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Leona H. Cox Community Elementary is one of 9 schools operated by Sulphur Springs Union, a district that enrolls 5,157 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Leona H. Cox Community Elementary shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 63%. Beyond that, the school records 16% White, 10% Asian, 5% multiracial, 5% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Leona H. Cox Community Elementary has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Leona H. Cox Community Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Leona H. Cox Community Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.6%, the actual is 50.4%, a residual of +9.8 points.

In the broader community, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 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), Leona H. Cox Community Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Canyon Springs Community Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Leona H. Cox Community Elementary at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 43.4%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 463 students in 2018 compared to 459 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 21% to 16% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 24.4:1 in 2018 to 25.5:1 today.

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