Reseda Elementary

Set in Reseda, California, Reseda Elementary is a cozy primary school, run under Los Angeles Unified. It educates 378 students across grades K through 5.

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

On demographics, Reseda Elementary shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 79%. Other groups include 9% Asian, 7% White, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Reseda Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 88% of students are eligible 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 north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Reseda 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 28.1%; Reseda Elementary posts 44.8%, +16.7 points above that line.

In the broader community, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household income runs about $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%. Reseda Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Magnolia Science Academy 5 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Reseda Elementary. On composite proficiency, Reseda Elementary comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 33.3%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Reseda Elementary's enrollment has declined 3% since 2018, when it stood at 390 (now 378). Class-load math has tightened: from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 in 2025.

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