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What's the most underrated thing about Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
527
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOS ANGELES UNIFIED·NCES 062271003222
Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary
1471 East 96th St., Los Angeles, CA 90002 · (323) 567-8871 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL527 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 50% of California public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
17.6:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
511 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 | 111 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 54 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 61 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 84 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 63 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (111) is 76% larger than its 6th grade class (63).
Student demographics
37%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
Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary→Charles Drew Middle
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
35.8%
CA avg 49.1% . +9.8pp since 2014
Math
27.0%
CA avg 37.7% . +4.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 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 10 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 13.2% | 22.6% | 23.6% | 40.5% |
| Math | 9.5% | 17.6% | 28.0% | 44.9% |
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 | 35.8% | 27.0% |
| 2023-24 | 30.3% | 26.6% |
| 2022-23 | 26.2% | 20.1% |
| 2021-22 | 30.9% | 20.6% |
| 2018-19 | 27.1% | 29.8% |
| 2017-18 | 32.6% | 34.4% |
| 2016-17 | 32.2% | 33.5% |
| 2015-16 | 31.0% | 28.0% |
| 2014-15 | 26.0% | 23.0% |
% 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
29.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.7%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% 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 Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary
Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary's state test result (29.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary this school | 527 | 97.0% | 29.7% |
| Manchester Avenue Elementary Los Angeles | 509 | 98.0% | 27.9% |
| Hunt Elementary San Bernardino | 533 | 97.2% | 18.3% |
| One Hundred Eighteenth Street Elementary Los Angeles | 465 | 98.3% | 27.0% |
| Charles W. Barrett Elementary Los Angeles | 473 | 98.9% | 29.3% |
| One Hundred Thirty-Fifth Street Elementary Gardena | 554 | 96.0% | 34.9% |
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-Sixth Street Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.7% | #3,561 of 5,151 | #896 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #3,528 of 5,172 ▼ 83 | #908 of 1,129 ▼ 49 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.8% | #3,348 of 5,172 ▲ 401 | #813 of 1,129 ▲ 78 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.7pp | #1,457 of 5,116 | #438 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 527 | #2,121 of 5,915 | #424 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.6:1 | #207 of 5,352 | #60 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.3% | #3,596 of 5,354 | #642 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.0% | #207 of 5,625 | #111 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.1% | #681 of 3,837 | #284 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
527
-143 (-21%) vs 2020
-40% since 1990-91, when it was 876
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 23.1:1
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 | 527 | 30 | 17.6:1 | 97% (511) |
| 2023-24 | 508 | 30 | 16.9:1 | 95% (485) |
| 2022-23 | 566 | 29.5 | 19.2:1 | 99% (559) |
| 2020-21 | 670 | 29 | 23.1:1 | 99% (661) |
| 2017-18 | 733 | 32.5 | 22.6:1 | 97% (708) |
| 2015-16 | 812 | 34 | 23.9:1 | 94% (766) |
| 2010-11 | 895 | N/A | N/A | 92% (825) |
| 2000-01 | 955 | 44 | 21.7:1 | 97% (930) |
| 1990-91 | 876 | 38 | 23.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 28% (733 to 527); teachers down 8% (32.5 to 30).
About Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary
Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary is classified as an elementary school. It is located in Los Angeles, California. Enrollment is 527 students in 2024-25, and the school serves kindergarten through 6.
In Los Angeles Unified, 784 schools enroll a combined 406,887 students.
Roughly 77% of students at Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary are Hispanic. Other groups make up 18% Black and 5% multiracial. County-wide, 48% of Los Angeles County residents are Hispanic. The school's diversity index is 37%, meaning two students picked at random have a 37% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Dividing enrollment by its 30 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 17.6:1. That is 4.7 students per teacher below the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary reports 97% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is higher than the 70% average for public schools in Los Angeles County.
allk12 grades Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary a B-. The grade compares the school only with California public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
In California, Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 29.7% actual against a predicted 22.7%.
Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary is located in Los Angeles County, where the median household income is $90,112, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Besides Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary, Los Angeles County has 2,243 other public schools.
The nearest other public school, Judith F. Baca Arts Academy, is about 0.4 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. By average proficiency, Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary is 5th among 7 schools close by.
NCES describes the area around Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is down 21% from 2020-21, when Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary had 670 students, to 2024-25, when it had 527. Its ratio of students to teachers was 23.1:1 in 2020-21, and 17.6:1 in 2024-25.
Community posts for Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary can cover school safety, transportation, and start times. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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-Sixth Street ElementaryHow many students attend Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary?
Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary enrolls approximately 527 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary serve?
Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary serves grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary have?
Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary?
At Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary, the student body is approximately 1% White, 77% Hispanic, 18% Black, 0% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary?
Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary is overseen by Los Angeles Unified in Los Angeles County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.