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Honest take: what's the hardest part about being a student at Loren Miller Elementary?
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Enrollment
601
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOS ANGELES UNIFIED·NCES 062271003186
Loren Miller Elementary
830 West 77th St., Los Angeles, CA 90044 · (323) 753-4445 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL601 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 43% of California public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
20.7:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
595 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 117 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 90 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 80 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 76 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (117) is 54% larger than its 6th grade class (76).
Student demographics
29%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Loren Miller Elementary→Mary McLeod Bethune Middle
Based on published attendance-zone data from Los Angeles Unified. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
27.9%
CA avg 49.1% . +14.9pp since 2014
Math
28.1%
CA avg 37.7% . +18.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 15 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 18 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 10.8% | 17.1% | 20.9% | 51.1% |
| Math | 12.5% | 15.6% | 20.6% | 51.3% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.9% | 28.1% |
| 2023-24 | 26.8% | 25.5% |
| 2022-23 | 24.6% | 20.2% |
| 2021-22 | 24.0% | 22.0% |
| 2018-19 | 22.7% | 22.6% |
| 2017-18 | 24.9% | 22.7% |
| 2016-17 | 15.8% | 13.5% |
| 2015-16 | 9.0% | 7.0% |
| 2014-15 | 13.0% | 10.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
27.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
21.5%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 22% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Loren Miller Elementary
Loren Miller Elementary's state test result (27.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loren Miller Elementary this school | 601 | 99.0% | 27.0% |
| Fifty-Second Street Elementary Los Angeles | 606 | 98.5% | 21.4% |
| Dr. Owen Lloyd Knox Elementary Los Angeles | 669 | 97.5% | 33.2% |
| One Hundred Twenty-Second Street Elementary Los Angeles | 574 | 96.0% | 44.0% |
| McKinley Elementary Bakersfield | 628 | 97.6% | 13.3% |
| Lincoln Elementary San Bernardino | 531 | 98.1% | 13.5% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Loren Miller Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #3,855 of 5,151 | #956 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.1% | #3,405 of 5,172 ▲ 169 | #879 of 1,129 ▲ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.9% | #4,183 of 5,172 ▼ 51 | #1,001 of 1,129 ▼ 24 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.0pp | #1,660 of 5,116 | #471 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 601 | #1,394 of 5,915 | #270 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.7:1 | #1,334 of 5,352 | #401 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 29.1% | #3,989 of 5,354 | #748 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.0% | #33 of 5,625 | #18 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.4% | #1,382 of 3,837 | #483 of 947 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
601
-72 (-11%) vs 2020
-53% since 1990-91, when it was 1,267
Student : Teacher
20.7:1
was 21.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 601 | 29 | 20.7:1 | 99% (595) |
| 2023-24 | 591 | 29 | 20.4:1 | 99% (584) |
| 2022-23 | 623 | 28 | 22.3:1 | 97% (607) |
| 2020-21 | 673 | 31 | 21.7:1 | 98% (660) |
| 2017-18 | 755 | 31 | 24.4:1 | 97% (735) |
| 2015-16 | 802 | 33 | 24.3:1 | 96% (770) |
| 2010-11 | 1,106 | N/A | N/A | 58% (640) |
| 2000-01 | 1,229 | 59 | 20.8:1 | 99% (1,221) |
| 1990-91 | 1,267 | 48 | 26.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Loren Miller Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (755 to 601); teachers down 6% (31 to 29).
About Loren Miller Elementary
Loren Miller Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school with its address in Los Angeles, California. Students in kindergarten through 6 attend the school, which enrolls 601 students. The average among elementary schools in California is roughly 465 students; this school is 29% above that.
Loren Miller Elementary is in Los Angeles Unified, a district with 406,887 students across 784 schools.
Hispanic students are the large majority at Loren Miller Elementary, with 83% of enrollment. The remaining shares are 14% Black and 2% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Los Angeles County's population at about 48%. Loren Miller Elementary has a diversity index of 29%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Federal staffing data show 29 full-time-equivalent teachers at Loren Miller Elementary and a ratio of 20.7:1. That ratio is under the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 99% of students. The rate at public schools in Los Angeles County averages 70%, lower than here.
allk12 grades Loren Miller Elementary a C+. The grade compares the school only with California public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Schools in California with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 21.5%. Loren Miller Elementary scores 27.0%.
Loren Miller Elementary is located in Los Angeles County, where median household income is about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 2,244 public schools in Los Angeles County, with a combined enrollment of about 1,265,907.
The next-closest public school is The SEED School of Los Angeles County, about 0.5 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Loren Miller Elementary ranks 3rd of 4 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 27.0% against a local average of 31.2%.
Under the NCES locale system, Loren Miller Elementary is City: Large.
Loren Miller Elementary had 673 students in 2020-21 and 601 in 2024-25, an 11% decrease.
Discussions about Loren Miller Elementary may include school safety, transportation, and start times. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Los Angeles County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
9,808,667
Census ACS
Median income
$90,112
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
2,244
1,265,907 students
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Frequently asked questions
About Loren Miller ElementaryHow large is Loren Miller Elementary?
Loren Miller Elementary enrolls approximately 601 students in grades KG-06.
Is Loren Miller Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Loren Miller Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many students per teacher at Loren Miller Elementary?
Approximately 20.7:1 students per teacher at Loren Miller Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Loren Miller Elementary?
At Loren Miller Elementary, the student body is approximately 1% White, 83% Hispanic, 14% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Loren Miller Elementary public or private?
Loren Miller Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Los Angeles Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.