Melvin Avenue Elementary

Melvin Avenue Elementary is one of the intimate elementary campuss in Reseda, California, overseen by Los Angeles Unified, with 379 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

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

On demographics, Melvin Avenue Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 79% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 9% Asian, 5% multiracial, 4% White, 3% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Melvin Avenue Elementary shows 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Melvin Avenue Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.3%; this one delivers 34.6%.

Across the wider county, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Melvin Avenue Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Sven Lokrantz Special Education Center, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Melvin Avenue Elementary. On composite proficiency, Melvin Avenue Elementary comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 29.1%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Melvin Avenue Elementary's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 376 (now 379). Class-load math has tightened: from 22.1:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 in 2025.

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