Mountain View Elementary

Mountain View Elementary is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in Tujunga, California, part of Los Angeles Unified, with 567 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 22% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Mountain View Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that teaches 406,887 students overall.

Demographically, Mountain View Elementary shows that White students make up the majority at 72%. Other groups include 21% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 31% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Mountain View Elementary reports 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 76% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mountain View Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.3%; this one delivers 42.4%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household income runs about $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Mountain View Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Pinewood Avenue Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mountain View Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 57.2%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Mountain View Elementary's enrollment has increased 52% since 2018, when it stood at 372 (now 567). Hispanic enrollment moved from 17% to 6% across the same window.

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