Ranchito Avenue Elementary

As a reasonably sized K-5 school in Panorama City, California, Ranchito Avenue Elementary enrolls 421 students from grades K through 5, operated by Los Angeles Unified.

Ranchito Avenue Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that educates 406,887 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ranchito Avenue Elementary lists that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 5% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Ranchito Avenue Elementary lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 91% of students at Ranchito Avenue Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Ranchito Avenue Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 25.4%; Ranchito Avenue Elementary posts 40.3%, +14.9 points above that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate 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%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Ranchito Avenue Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Burton Street Elementary, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ranchito Avenue Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ranchito Avenue Elementary at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 28.8%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Ranchito Avenue Elementary's enrollment has decreased 20% since 2018, when it stood at 529 (now 421). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 10% to 5%. Class-load math has tightened: from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 in 2025.

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