Plainview Academic Charter Academy

Located at 10819 Plainview Ave., in Tujunga, California, Plainview Academic Charter Academy is an intimate elementary campus that educates 248 students (grades K through 5), operated by Los Angeles Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Plainview Academic Charter Academy sits 47% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students total), Plainview Academic Charter Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Plainview Academic Charter Academy reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 17% White, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, Plainview Academic Charter Academy records 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Plainview Academic Charter Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.1%, the actual is 18.0%, a residual of -9.1 points.

In the surrounding community, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Plainview Academic Charter Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Verdugo Hills Senior High, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Plainview Academic Charter Academy. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Plainview Academic Charter Academy at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 45.5%.

Plainview Academic Charter Academy operates from a city-core location. Plainview Academic Charter Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 16%: 294 students in 2018 compared to 248 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.