Micheltorena Street Elementary
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 39 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 31 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 Micheltorena Street Elementary
Micheltorena Street Elementary is an elementary campus of cozy scale in Los Angeles, California, overseen by Los Angeles Unified, teacheing 388 students in grades K through 5.
Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Micheltorena Street Elementary is one of those campuses.
Demographically, Micheltorena Street Elementary shows that 45% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 30% White, 18% multiracial, 6% Asian. Compared to Los Angeles County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the resource side, Micheltorena Street Elementary logs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 40% of students at Micheltorena Street Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Micheltorena Street Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.7%, the actual is 58.3%, a residual of +2.5 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household income runs about $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Micheltorena Street Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).
Nearest neighbor: Thomas Starr King Middle School Film and Media Magnet, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Micheltorena Street Elementary comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 41.0%.
Micheltorena Street Elementary operates from a high-density location.
Five-year trend. Micheltorena Street Elementary's enrollment has shrank 4% since 2018, when it stood at 404 (now 388). Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 57% to 45%.
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