Osceola Street Elementary

Osceola Street Elementary is a small elementary campus in Sylmar, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified. The school enrolls 352 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 24% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students total), Osceola Street Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Osceola Street Elementary logs that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 4% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Osceola Street Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Osceola Street Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.8%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Osceola Street Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Dyer Street Elementary, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Osceola Street Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 30.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Osceola Street Elementary's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 345 (now 352). Class-load math has fell: from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 in 2025.

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