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What advice would you give to incoming students at Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary?
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Enrollment
487
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOS ANGELES UNIFIED·NCES 062271003219
Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary
9900 South Wadsworth Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90002 · (323) 564-2677 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL487 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 77% of California public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-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
19.5:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
473 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 | 97 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 58 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 48 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (97) is 102% larger than its 6th grade class (48).
Student demographics
40%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
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
43.3%
CA avg 49.1% . +23.3pp since 2014
Math
46.5%
CA avg 37.7% . +25.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 23 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 25 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 18.9% | 24.4% | 28.6% | 28.1% |
| Math | 24.1% | 22.4% | 27.8% | 25.7% |
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 | 43.3% | 46.5% |
| 2023-24 | 41.2% | 37.4% |
| 2022-23 | 42.2% | 36.5% |
| 2021-22 | 45.8% | 33.6% |
| 2018-19 | 48.0% | 39.7% |
| 2017-18 | 44.9% | 33.7% |
| 2016-17 | 40.6% | 37.9% |
| 2015-16 | 31.0% | 27.0% |
| 2014-15 | 20.0% | 21.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
41.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.6%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 23% 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 19 points, placing it in California's top 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 Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary
Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary's state test result (41.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary this school | 487 | 97.1% | 41.5% |
| Hunt Elementary San Bernardino | 533 | 97.2% | 18.3% |
| Charles W. Barrett Elementary Los Angeles | 473 | 98.9% | 29.3% |
| Barton Elementary San Bernardino | 485 | 96.1% | 15.9% |
| One Hundred Eighteenth Street Elementary Los Angeles | 465 | 98.3% | 27.0% |
| Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary Los Angeles | 527 | 97.0% | 29.7% |
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 Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.5% | #2,341 of 5,151 | #556 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.5% | #1,823 of 5,172 ▲ 568 | #436 of 1,129 ▲ 141 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.3% | #2,616 of 5,172 ▼ 8 | #633 of 1,129 ▼ 21 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.2pp | #1,591 of 5,116 | #458 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 487 | #2,603 of 5,915 | #524 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.5:1 | #720 of 5,352 | #215 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.4% | #3,414 of 5,354 | #597 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.1% | #189 of 5,625 | #105 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.7% | #2,069 of 3,837 | #626 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
487
-20 (-4%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 693
Student : Teacher
19.5:1
was 21.1:1
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 | 487 | 25 | 19.5:1 | 97% (473) |
| 2023-24 | 499 | 24 | 20.8:1 | 96% (477) |
| 2022-23 | 472 | 22 | 21.4:1 | 98% (461) |
| 2020-21 | 507 | 24 | 21.1:1 | 97% (492) |
| 2017-18 | 571 | 24 | 23.8:1 | 96% (547) |
| 2015-16 | 609 | 26 | 23.4:1 | 92% (561) |
| 2010-11 | 585 | N/A | N/A | 47% (277) |
| 2000-01 | 686 | 35 | 19.6:1 | 93% (635) |
| 1990-91 | 693 | 30 | 23.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (571 to 487); teachers up 4% (24 to 25).
About Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary
Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Los Angeles, California, administered by Los Angeles Unified. Its grade span covers kindergarten through 6, with 487 students on the rolls.
Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary is in Los Angeles Unified, a district with 406,887 students across 784 schools.
The share of Hispanic students at Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary is 74%, a majority. The school is also 21% Black and 3% multiracial. That is higher than the 48% Hispanic share among all Los Angeles County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 40%.
Staffing at Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary comes to 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 19.5:1. Elementary schools in California have an average ratio of 22.3:1. On the income side, 97% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 70% average for public schools in Los Angeles County.
Among California public elementary schools, Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary outscored 77%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary scores 18.8 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results: 41.5% actual versus 22.6% predicted. That puts it in the top 10% of California schools on BeatsExpectations.
Looking at the county, Los Angeles County, median household income comes to about $90,112, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. The county has 2,244 public schools and about 1,265,907 students.
Among nearby public schools, KIPP Ignite Academy is closest at about 0.5 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 28.4% proficiency; Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary posts 41.5%.
Federal data place Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count decreased 4% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. The school's ratio dropped from 21.1:1 to 19.5:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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 Ninety-Ninth Street ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary?
Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary enrolls approximately 487 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary serve?
Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary serves grades KG-06.
How many students per teacher at Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary?
Approximately 19.5:1 students per teacher at Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary.
How diverse is Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary?
Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary reports a student body of 1% White, 74% Hispanic, 21% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary in?
Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary is part of Los Angeles Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.