Mountain Avenue Elementary

Mountain Avenue Elementary operates as a reasonably sized elementary school in La Crescenta, California, part of Glendale Unified. Current enrollment sits at 551 students spanning grades K through 6.

Glendale Unified comprises 32 schools with combined enrollment of 25,294 students; Mountain Avenue Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Mountain Avenue Elementary logs that White students make up the majority at 59%. Beyond that, the school reports 18% Asian, 15% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 26.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Mountain Avenue Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Mountain Avenue Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 72.2%.

Around the school, Los Angeles County reports that median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Mountain Avenue Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Rosemont Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mountain Avenue Elementary comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 77.7%.

Mountain Avenue Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mountain Avenue Elementary has remained close to its prior level, going from 560 students in 2018 to 551 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share fell from 26% to 18%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 28.0:1 in 2018 to 26.3:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Mountain Avenue Elementary typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.