Multnomah Street Elementary
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Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 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 26 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 23 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 36% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 25 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Multnomah Street Elementary
Multnomah Street Elementary operates as an intimate elementary school in Los Angeles, California, run under Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 322 students spanning grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 31% leaner than typical.
Los Angeles Unified comprises 784 schools with combined enrollment of 406,887 students; Multnomah Street Elementary is among them.
Looking at the student body, Multnomah Street Elementary shows that nearly all students (84%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 6% Asian, 4% multiracial, 4% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, Multnomah Street Elementary lists 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Multnomah Street Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
After controlling for student poverty, Multnomah Street Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 35.8%; Multnomah Street Elementary posts 61.0%, +25.1 points above that line.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Multnomah Street Elementary is one campus in the mix.
Pueblo de Los Angeles Continuation is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Multnomah Street Elementary at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 43.1%.
The school occupies a high-density site.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 27%: 444 students in 2018 compared to 322 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share shrank from 90% to 84%.
Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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