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What's the most underrated thing about Melrose Avenue Elementary that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
419
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOS ANGELES UNIFIED·NCES 062271003178
Melrose Avenue Elementary
731 North Detroit St., Los Angeles, CA 90046 · (323) 938-6275 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL419 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 92% of California public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-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
23.3:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
192 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 | 65 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 64 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 63 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is 23% smaller than its 5th grade class (84).
Student demographics
76%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
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
72.4%
CA avg 49.1% . +10.4pp since 2014
Math
71.0%
CA avg 37.7% . +13.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 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 10 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 13 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 48.4% | 24.0% | 14.5% | 13.1% |
| Math | 47.5% | 23.5% | 17.6% | 11.3% |
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 | 72.4% | 71.0% |
| 2023-24 | 72.2% | 70.0% |
| 2022-23 | 76.4% | 73.8% |
| 2021-22 | 74.4% | 70.2% |
| 2018-19 | 72.2% | 70.3% |
| 2017-18 | 71.4% | 66.7% |
| 2016-17 | 65.2% | 62.9% |
| 2015-16 | 70.0% | 58.0% |
| 2014-15 | 62.0% | 58.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
71.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.7%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 53% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in California's top 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 Melrose Avenue Elementary
Melrose Avenue Elementary's state test result (71.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melrose Avenue Elementary this school | 419 | 45.8% | 71.3% |
| Clover Avenue Elementary Los Angeles | 468 | 40.6% | 85.3% |
| William G. Paden Elementary Alameda | 372 | 46.0% | 53.7% |
| Love Elementary Alameda | 498 | 49.8% | 56.7% |
| Mabel M. Paine Elementary Yorba Linda | 419 | 41.1% | 73.5% |
| Gregory Gardens Elementary Pleasant Hill | 409 | 47.4% | 41.7% |
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 Melrose Avenue Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.3% | #600 of 5,151 | #134 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.0% | #555 of 5,172 ▲ 53 | #121 of 1,129 ▲ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.4% | #632 of 5,172 ▼ 31 | #142 of 1,129 ▼ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.6pp | #1,608 of 5,116 | #280 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 419 | #3,438 of 5,915 | #720 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.3:1 | #3,201 of 5,352 | #770 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.8% | #78 of 5,354 | #6 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.8% | #4,093 of 5,625 | #1,026 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +34.7% | #105 of 1,139 | #17 of 181 |
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
419
-39 (-9%) vs 2020
+23% since 1990-91, when it was 341
Student : Teacher
23.3:1
was 25.4:1
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 | 419 | 18 | 23.3:1 | 46% (192) |
| 2023-24 | 450 | 18 | 25.0:1 | 44% (196) |
| 2022-23 | 440 | 18 | 24.4:1 | 41% (181) |
| 2020-21 | 458 | 18 | 25.4:1 | 49% (223) |
| 2017-18 | 311 | 13 | 23.9:1 | 54% (169) |
| 2015-16 | 337 | 16 | 21.1:1 | 58% (194) |
| 2010-11 | 337 | N/A | N/A | 60% (202) |
| 2000-01 | 266 | 22 | 12.1:1 | 88% (234) |
| 1990-91 | 341 | 18 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Melrose Avenue Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 35% (311 to 419); teachers up 38% (13 to 18).
About Melrose Avenue Elementary
Melrose Avenue Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in Los Angeles, California, under Los Angeles Unified. The school's 419 students are in kindergarten through 5.
Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools with a combined 406,887 students. Melrose Avenue Elementary is one of them.
The most common group at Melrose Avenue Elementary is Asian students, at 30%. Other groups make up 28% Hispanic, 22% White, 16% multiracial, and 5% Black. Los Angeles County as a whole is about 15% Asian, so the school's share is higher. The school's diversity index is 76%, meaning two students picked at random have a 76% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school reported 18 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25 and a ratio of 23.3:1. That is 1.0 students per teacher above the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 46%. Among public schools in Los Angeles County, the average eligibility rate is 70%.
Measured against California public elementary schools, Melrose Avenue Elementary receives an A. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Melrose Avenue Elementary would score about 52.7%. It scores 71.3%, a top-10% result among California schools on BeatsExpectations.
Los Angeles County census figures show that the median household income is $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. There are 2,244 public schools in Los Angeles County, enrolling about 1,265,907 students in all.
Hubert Howe Bancroft Middle is located about 0.6 miles from Melrose Avenue Elementary. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 71.3% is above the 48.3% average for nearby schools.
Under the NCES locale system, Melrose Avenue Elementary is City: Large.
2024-25 enrollment was 419, a 9% decrease from 458 in 2020-21. Its ratio of students to teachers was 25.4:1 in 2020-21, and 23.3:1 in 2024-25.
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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 Melrose Avenue ElementaryHow large is Melrose Avenue Elementary?
Melrose Avenue Elementary enrolls approximately 419 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Melrose Avenue Elementary serve?
Melrose Avenue Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Melrose Avenue Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Melrose Avenue Elementary is approximately 23.3:1 (18 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Melrose Avenue Elementary?
Melrose Avenue Elementary reports a student body of 22% White, 28% Hispanic, 5% Black, 30% Asian, 16% Two or more.
Who oversees Melrose Avenue Elementary?
Melrose Avenue Elementary is overseen by Los Angeles Unified in Los Angeles County.
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