Napa Street Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Northridge, California, Napa Street Elementary hosts 402 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Los Angeles Unified.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Napa Street Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Napa Street Elementary shows that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 5% White, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Napa Street Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.0%; this one delivers 26.5%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Napa Street Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Valley International Preparatory High, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Napa Street Elementary. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Napa Street Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 38.9%.

Napa Street Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 17%: 484 students in 2018 compared to 402 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.