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Lovelia P. Flournoy Elementary
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Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 15 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 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 3 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 21% 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 Lovelia P. Flournoy Elementary
As a modestly sized elementary-level community in Los Angeles, California, Lovelia P. Flournoy Elementary enrolls 382 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Los Angeles Unified.
Lovelia P. Flournoy Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that instructs 406,887 students overall.
In terms of who attends, Lovelia P. Flournoy Elementary lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 72%. Beyond that, the school logs 24% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lovelia P. Flournoy Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 21.5%; this one delivers 15.7%.
Across the wider county, Los Angeles County reports 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%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Lovelia P. Flournoy Elementary is one.
Nearest neighbor: Dorothy V. Johnson Community Day, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lovelia P. Flournoy Elementary comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 26.5%.
Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lovelia P. Flournoy Elementary has edged down 31%, going from 556 students in 2018 to 382 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.
Inside the community feed, the feed for Lovelia P. Flournoy Elementary typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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