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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Nevin Avenue Elementary this year?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
478
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOS ANGELES UNIFIED·NCES 062271003212
Nevin Avenue Elementary
1569 East 32nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90011 · (323) 232-2236 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL478 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 68% of California public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
21.7:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
467 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 104 | 22% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 79 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 75 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (104) is 39% larger than its 5th grade class (75).
Student demographics
10%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Nevin Avenue Elementary→Dr. Julian Nava Learning Academy
Based on published attendance-zone data from Los Angeles Unified. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
32.0%
CA avg 49.1% . -2.0pp since 2014
Math
36.5%
CA avg 37.7% . +7.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 8 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 12.3% | 19.7% | 26.3% | 41.7% |
| Math | 11.7% | 24.8% | 26.5% | 37.0% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.0% | 36.5% |
| 2023-24 | 33.0% | 38.7% |
| 2022-23 | 26.2% | 24.7% |
| 2021-22 | 30.2% | 16.5% |
| 2018-19 | 33.2% | 30.7% |
| 2017-18 | 33.9% | 31.8% |
| 2016-17 | 40.3% | 32.9% |
| 2015-16 | 37.0% | 33.0% |
| 2014-15 | 34.0% | 29.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
35.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.3%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 22% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Nevin Avenue Elementary
Nevin Avenue Elementary's state test result (35.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevin Avenue Elementary this school | 478 | 97.7% | 35.1% |
| Dr. Lawrence H. Moore Math Science Technology Academy Los Angeles | 454 | 97.8% | 38.1% |
| Twenty-Eighth Street Elementary Los Angeles | 459 | 98.5% | 24.4% |
| Mt. Vernon Elementary San Bernardino | 471 | 96.2% | 14.0% |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson Elementary San Diego | 456 | 96.7% | 21.7% |
| Wilmington Park Elementary Wilmington | 472 | 96.0% | 36.1% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Nevin Avenue Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.1% | #2,944 of 5,151 | #737 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.5% | #2,594 of 5,172 ▼ 307 | #657 of 1,129 ▼ 108 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #3,779 of 5,172 ▼ 341 | #926 of 1,129 ▼ 102 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +10.9pp | #495 of 5,116 | #189 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 478 | #2,705 of 5,915 | #543 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.7:1 | #1,981 of 5,352 | #565 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 9.7% | #4,947 of 5,354 | #1,058 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.7% | #127 of 5,625 | #73 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.1% | #751 of 3,837 | #311 of 947 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
478
-32 (-6%) vs 2020
-33% since 1990-91, when it was 709
Student : Teacher
21.7:1
was 20.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 478 | 22 | 21.7:1 | 98% (467) |
| 2023-24 | 492 | 24 | 20.5:1 | 97% (477) |
| 2022-23 | 502 | 23 | 21.8:1 | 97% (487) |
| 2020-21 | 510 | 25 | 20.4:1 | 98% (502) |
| 2017-18 | 656 | 27 | 24.3:1 | 94% (619) |
| 2015-16 | 635 | 26 | 24.4:1 | 91% (581) |
| 2010-11 | 725 | N/A | N/A | 45% (325) |
| 2000-01 | 779 | 44 | 17.7:1 | 100% (776) |
| 1990-91 | 709 | 30 | 23.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Nevin Avenue Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 27% (656 to 478); teachers down 19% (27 to 22).
About Nevin Avenue Elementary
Federal records list Nevin Avenue Elementary as an elementary school in Los Angeles, California. It reports enrollment of 478 students in kindergarten through 5.
Within Los Angeles Unified, Nevin Avenue Elementary is one of 784 schools. The district enrolls 406,887 students.
Roughly 95% of students at Nevin Avenue Elementary are Hispanic. Enrollment also includes 3% Black. Among people living in Los Angeles County, the Hispanic share is about 48%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Nevin Avenue Elementary scores 10%.
The school's 22 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.7:1. It is about the same as the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. At Nevin Avenue Elementary, 98% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. Across public schools in Los Angeles County, the average is 70%.
Among California public elementary schools, Nevin Avenue Elementary outscored 68%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
On BeatsExpectations, Nevin Avenue Elementary is 12.8 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of California schools.
The school is in Los Angeles County, where median household income comes to about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Los Angeles County counts 2,244 public schools with about 1,265,907 students.
Animo Ralph Bunche Charter High is about 0.2 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of Nevin Avenue Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Nevin Avenue Elementary ranks 2nd of 5 on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for Nevin Avenue Elementary is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Nevin Avenue Elementary had a net loss of 32 students, or 6%. The ratio of students to teachers went from 20.4:1 to 21.7:1 over the same years.
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Los Angeles County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
9,808,667
Census ACS
Median income
$90,112
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
2,244
1,265,907 students
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Frequently asked questions
About Nevin Avenue ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Nevin Avenue Elementary?
Nevin Avenue Elementary enrolls approximately 478 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Nevin Avenue Elementary serve?
Nevin Avenue Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Nevin Avenue Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Nevin Avenue Elementary is approximately 21.7:1 (22 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Nevin Avenue Elementary?
At Nevin Avenue Elementary, the student body is approximately 1% White, 95% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Two or more.
Is Nevin Avenue Elementary public or private?
Nevin Avenue Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Los Angeles Unified.
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