Pinewood Avenue Elementary

Pinewood Avenue Elementary operates as a low-enrollment elementary school in Tujunga, California, run under Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 215 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Pinewood Avenue Elementary sits 54% smaller than that benchmark.

Los Angeles Unified comprises 784 schools with combined enrollment of 406,887 students; Pinewood Avenue Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Pinewood Avenue Elementary shows that 69% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 20% White, 5% multiracial, 5% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Pinewood Avenue Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Pinewood Avenue Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.4%, the actual is 24.0%, a residual of +1.6 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Pinewood Avenue Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Mountain View Elementary, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Pinewood Avenue Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.7%.

Pinewood Avenue Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pinewood Avenue Elementary has shrank 7%, going from 231 students in 2018 to 215 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged up from 0% to 5% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.