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What's something Meyler Street Elementary does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
603
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOS ANGELES UNIFIED·NCES 062271003182
Meyler Street Elementary
1123 West 223rd St., Torrance, CA 90502 · (310) 328-3910 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL603 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 56% 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.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+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
19.4:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
576 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 | 148 | 25% |
| Grade 1 | 74 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 92 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 87 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 103 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 99 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (148) is 49% larger than its 5th grade class (99).
Student demographics
42%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
33.8%
CA avg 49.1% . +9.8pp since 2014
Math
31.1%
CA avg 37.7% . +11.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 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 11 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 13.3% | 20.5% | 23.0% | 43.2% |
| Math | 9.9% | 21.2% | 29.0% | 39.9% |
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 | 33.8% | 31.1% |
| 2023-24 | 38.8% | 33.9% |
| 2022-23 | 34.0% | 33.6% |
| 2021-22 | 34.9% | 26.8% |
| 2018-19 | 35.7% | 35.2% |
| 2017-18 | 36.9% | 34.4% |
| 2016-17 | 37.0% | 30.5% |
| 2015-16 | 38.0% | 30.0% |
| 2014-15 | 24.0% | 20.0% |
% 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
34.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.6%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 24% 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 Meyler Street Elementary
Meyler Street Elementary's state test result (34.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meyler Street Elementary this school | 603 | 95.5% | 34.5% |
| Anna Kyle Elementary Fairfield | 603 | 93.0% | 11.0% |
| Sunnymeadows Elementary Moreno Valley | 583 | 94.0% | 22.6% |
| Chollas/Mead Elementary San Diego | 534 | 94.2% | 30.6% |
| Chaparral Hills Elementary Moreno Valley | 547 | 93.8% | 27.3% |
| Beulah Payne STEAM Academy Inglewood | 554 | 93.5% | 21.8% |
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 Meyler Street Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.5% | #3,020 of 5,151 | #754 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.1% | #3,117 of 5,172 ▼ 428 | #816 of 1,129 ▼ 155 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.8% | #3,577 of 5,172 ▼ 739 | #879 of 1,129 ▼ 207 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.6pp | #2,799 of 5,116 | #692 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 603 | #1,372 of 5,915 | #267 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.4:1 | #705 of 5,352 | #210 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.6% | #3,334 of 5,354 | #574 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.5% | #382 of 5,625 | #193 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.4% | #1,484 of 3,837 | #509 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
603
-77 (-11%) vs 2020
-47% since 1990-91, when it was 1,147
Student : Teacher
19.4:1
was 21.9:1
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 | 603 | 31 | 19.4:1 | 96% (576) |
| 2023-24 | 582 | 29 | 20.1:1 | 95% (553) |
| 2022-23 | 628 | 33 | 19.0:1 | 92% (576) |
| 2020-21 | 680 | 31 | 21.9:1 | 93% (629) |
| 2017-18 | 748 | 35 | 21.4:1 | 87% (654) |
| 2015-16 | 786 | 34 | 23.1:1 | 84% (657) |
| 2010-11 | 830 | N/A | N/A | 78% (646) |
| 2000-01 | 1,125 | 59 | 19.1:1 | 83% (936) |
| 1990-91 | 1,147 | 50 | 22.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Meyler Street Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (748 to 603); teachers down 11% (35 to 31).
About Meyler Street Elementary
Meyler Street Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in Torrance, California, under Los Angeles Unified. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 603 students in kindergarten through 5. The average for elementary schools in California is about 465 students, so this school is 30% above average.
Besides Meyler Street Elementary, Los Angeles Unified runs 783 other schools. The district enrolls 406,887 students.
Roughly 75% of students at Meyler Street Elementary are Hispanic. The rest of enrollment is 9% Black, 8% multiracial, and 4% Asian. Among all residents of Los Angeles County, the Hispanic share is about 48%. The school's diversity index is 42%, meaning two students picked at random have a 42% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Its 31 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 19.4:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. The school's lunch program data list 96% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. On average, public schools in Los Angeles County report 70%.
allk12 grades Meyler Street Elementary a B. The grade compares the school only with California public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Compared with California schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Meyler Street Elementary's results are 10.9 points above predicted: 34.5% against 23.6%.
County data help place the school in context: in Los Angeles County, the median household income is $90,112, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Los Angeles County is home to 2,244 public schools and about 1,265,907 public school students.
Nearest public school: Stephen M. White Middle, about 0.6 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, Meyler Street Elementary places 8th out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, Meyler Street Elementary's enrollment declined 11%, to 603. By 2024-25, the school had 19.4 students per teacher, compared with 21.9 in 2020-21.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for Meyler Street Elementary covering things like sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
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
Quick facts
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Frequently asked questions
About Meyler Street ElementaryHow many students attend Meyler Street Elementary?
Meyler Street Elementary enrolls approximately 603 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Meyler Street Elementary serve?
Meyler Street Elementary serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Meyler Street Elementary?
Approximately 19.4:1 students per teacher at Meyler Street Elementary.
How diverse is Meyler Street Elementary?
Meyler Street Elementary reports a student body of 1% White, 75% Hispanic, 9% Black, 4% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Meyler Street Elementary?
Meyler Street Elementary is overseen by Los Angeles Unified in Los Angeles County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.