Limerick Avenue Elementary

Limerick Avenue Elementary, a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Canoga Park, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified, educates 656 students, covering grades K through 5. That puts it 41% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Limerick Avenue Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Limerick Avenue Elementary lists that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 8% multiracial, 5% Asian, 3% White, 3% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, Limerick Avenue Elementary logs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Limerick Avenue Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Limerick Avenue Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 22.9%; this one delivers 42.7%, a residual of +19.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Los Angeles County shows 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%. Limerick Avenue Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Winnetka Avenue Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Limerick Avenue Elementary. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Limerick Avenue Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 37.7%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 19%: 805 students in 2018 compared to 656 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment ticked down from 10% to 5% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 23.7:1 in 2018 to 21.2:1 in 2025.

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