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What advice would you give to incoming students at Noble Avenue Elementary?
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Enrollment
656
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOS ANGELES UNIFIED·NCES 062271003227
Noble Avenue Elementary
8329 Noble Ave., North Hills, CA 91343 · (818) 892-1151 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL656 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 23% 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.
- 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.
- C-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
20.2:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
618 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 | 130 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 87 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 111 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 106 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 107 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 115 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (130) is 13% larger than its 5th grade class (115).
Student demographics
21%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
Noble Avenue Elementary→Vista 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
26.4%
CA avg 49.1% . -3.6pp since 2014
Math
22.9%
CA avg 37.7% . -7.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 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 4 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 7 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 8.9% | 17.5% | 21.0% | 52.5% |
| Math | 8.2% | 14.7% | 26.0% | 51.1% |
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 | 26.4% | 22.9% |
| 2023-24 | 25.5% | 23.4% |
| 2022-23 | 25.4% | 24.1% |
| 2021-22 | 29.3% | 23.1% |
| 2018-19 | 32.6% | 30.1% |
| 2017-18 | 32.9% | 32.1% |
| 2016-17 | 33.1% | 34.6% |
| 2015-16 | 35.0% | 33.0% |
| 2014-15 | 30.0% | 30.0% |
% 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
24.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
24.3%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 24% 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 Noble Avenue Elementary
Noble Avenue Elementary's state test result (24.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Noble Avenue Elementary this school | 656 | 94.2% | 24.7% |
| Hazeltine Avenue Elementary Van Nuys | 621 | 94.2% | 34.0% |
| Washington Elementary Pomona | 645 | 95.0% | 18.1% |
| Oak Hill Elementary Escondido | 679 | 92.2% | 18.8% |
| Cesar Chavez Elementary Madera | 659 | 93.3% | 22.8% |
| Parkwood Elementary Madera | 635 | 96.5% | 30.1% |
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 Noble Avenue Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.7% | #4,107 of 5,151 | #1,001 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.9% | #4,006 of 5,172 ▼ 205 | #1,000 of 1,129 ▼ 60 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.4% | #4,336 of 5,172 ▼ 89 | #1,029 of 1,129 ▼ 33 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.6pp | #1,328 of 5,116 | #213 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 656 | #981 of 5,915 | #176 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.2:1 | #1,027 of 5,352 | #311 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 20.7% | #4,387 of 5,354 | #860 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.2% | #547 of 5,625 | #261 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.6% | #781 of 3,837 | #322 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
656
-112 (-15%) vs 2020
-48% since 1990-91, when it was 1,256
Student : Teacher
20.2:1
was 22.6:1
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 | 656 | 32.5 | 20.2:1 | 94% (618) |
| 2023-24 | 692 | 34 | 20.4:1 | 93% (646) |
| 2022-23 | 736 | 36 | 20.4:1 | 97% (713) |
| 2020-21 | 768 | 34 | 22.6:1 | 97% (744) |
| 2017-18 | 894 | 39 | 22.9:1 | 92% (826) |
| 2015-16 | 891 | 39 | 22.9:1 | 91% (811) |
| 2010-11 | 1,135 | N/A | N/A | 92% (1,039) |
| 2000-01 | 1,792 | 91 | 19.7:1 | 95% (1,695) |
| 1990-91 | 1,256 | 49 | 25.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Noble Avenue Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 27% (894 to 656); teachers down 17% (39 to 32.5).
About Noble Avenue Elementary
Noble Avenue Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school based in North Hills, California. The school covers kindergarten through 5 and reported 656 students in 2024-25. The school is 41% above the average for elementary schools in California.
Noble Avenue Elementary is one school in a 784-school district, Los Angeles Unified, which enrolls 406,887 students.
By race and ethnicity, Noble Avenue Elementary is 89% Hispanic. Next come 4% White, 3% multiracial, and 3% Asian. The county population is about 48% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 21, compared with 70 nationally.
On staff are 32.5 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 20.2:1. Statewide, elementary schools in California average 22.3:1. Noble Avenue Elementary has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 94%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Los Angeles County is 70%.
Noble Avenue Elementary earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 23% of California public elementary schools.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 24.3% at Noble Avenue Elementary; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 24.7%.
For the population of Los Angeles County, median household income comes to about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Los Angeles County's 2,244 public schools enroll about 1,265,907 students and include Noble Avenue Elementary.
Vista Middle is about 0.2 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 32.3%; Noble Avenue Elementary's is 24.7%, ranking 5th of 7.
The NCES locale for Noble Avenue Elementary is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
A 15% decrease took enrollment from 768 in 2020-21 to 656 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 22.6:1 to 20.2:1.
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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 Noble Avenue ElementaryHow many students attend Noble Avenue Elementary?
Noble Avenue Elementary enrolls approximately 656 students in grades KG-05.
Is Noble Avenue Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Noble Avenue Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Noble Avenue Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Noble Avenue Elementary is approximately 20.2:1 (33 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Noble Avenue Elementary?
At Noble Avenue Elementary, the student body is approximately 4% White, 89% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Noble Avenue Elementary in?
Noble Avenue Elementary is part of Los Angeles Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.