Lockhurst Drive Charter Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Woodland Hills, California, Lockhurst Drive Charter Elementary enrolls 438 students from grades K through 5, part of Los Angeles Unified.

Across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students total), Lockhurst Drive Charter Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Lockhurst Drive Charter Elementary shows that the most-represented group is White (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 20% multiracial, 20% Hispanic, 15% Asian, 3% Black. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Lockhurst Drive Charter Elementary has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.9:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lockhurst Drive Charter Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.6%; this one delivers 66.6%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), Lockhurst Drive Charter Elementary is one campus in the mix.

George Ellery Hale Charter Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lockhurst Drive Charter Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 57.0%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. As a public charter, Lockhurst Drive Charter Elementary runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Lockhurst Drive Charter Elementary's enrollment has fell 10% since 2018, when it stood at 485 (now 438). The White share of enrollment shrank from 51% to 42% over that span.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.