Enrollment
307
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOS ANGELES UNIFIED·NCES 062271003310
Ritter Elementary
11108 Watts Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90059 · (323) 564-2478 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL307 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 76% of California public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
21.9:1
14 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
299 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 75 | 24% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 47 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 40 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 53 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is 42% larger than its 5th grade class (53).
Student demographics
32%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Ritter Elementary→Edwin Markham Middle
Based on published attendance-zone data from Los Angeles Unified. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
43.6%
CA avg 49.1% . +21.6pp since 2014
Math
44.4%
CA avg 37.7% . +27.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 22 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 27 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 16.5% | 27.1% | 24.1% | 32.3% |
| Math | 20.7% | 23.7% | 21.5% | 34.1% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.6% | 44.4% |
| 2023-24 | 33.9% | 33.1% |
| 2022-23 | 35.7% | 36.0% |
| 2021-22 | 37.2% | 30.4% |
| 2018-19 | 40.4% | 42.2% |
| 2017-18 | 27.1% | 37.9% |
| 2016-17 | 27.9% | 28.7% |
| 2015-16 | 22.0% | 17.0% |
| 2014-15 | 22.0% | 17.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
39.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.5%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 22% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Ritter Elementary
Ritter Elementary's state test result (39.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ritter Elementary this school | 307 | 97.4% | 39.1% |
| EnCompass Academy Elementary Oakland | 283 | 98.2% | 18.2% |
| Ninth Street Elementary Los Angeles | 302 | 99.0% | 16.5% |
| Arlington Heights Elementary Los Angeles | 308 | 96.8% | 24.2% |
| Stoner Avenue Elementary Culver City | 258 | 95.0% | 36.4% |
| Monterey Elementary San Bernardino | 372 | 96.5% | 12.7% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Ritter Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.1% | #2,575 of 5,151 | #629 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.4% | #1,964 of 5,172 ▲ 808 | #480 of 1,129 ▲ 208 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.6% | #2,586 of 5,172 ▲ 768 | #621 of 1,129 ▲ 186 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +10.2pp | #594 of 5,116 | #224 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 307 | #4,701 of 5,915 | #1,042 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.9:1 | #2,146 of 5,352 | #597 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 32.5% | #3,823 of 5,354 | #700 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.4% | #156 of 5,625 | #92 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.7% | #1,676 of 3,837 | #559 of 947 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
307
-22 (-7%) vs 2020
-28% since 1990-91, when it was 428
Student : Teacher
21.9:1
was 21.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 307 | 14 | 21.9:1 | 97% (299) |
| 2023-24 | 284 | 14 | 20.3:1 | 98% (277) |
| 2022-23 | 304 | 14 | 21.7:1 | 98% (297) |
| 2020-21 | 329 | 15 | 21.9:1 | 97% (320) |
| 2017-18 | 373 | 15 | 24.9:1 | 96% (358) |
| 2015-16 | 355 | 14 | 25.4:1 | 96% (342) |
| 2010-11 | 386 | N/A | N/A | 57% (220) |
| 2000-01 | 430 | 24 | 17.9:1 | 95% (410) |
| 1990-91 | 428 | 16 | 26.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ritter Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (373 to 307); teachers down 7% (15 to 14).
About Ritter Elementary
Ritter Elementary is one of the public schools in Los Angeles, California. It is a small elementary school. The school enrolls 307 students in kindergarten through 5. On average, elementary schools in California enroll around 465, and this school is 34% below that mark.
Los Angeles Unified is responsible for 784 schools, Ritter Elementary included, with 406,887 students in all.
A large majority of enrollment at Ritter Elementary is Hispanic, at 81%. Beyond that, enrollment is 12% Black and 6% multiracial. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 48%. The diversity index for Ritter Elementary is 32%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
On staff are 14 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 21.9:1. The 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California is close to this figure. Ritter Elementary has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 97%. It compares with 70% for public schools in Los Angeles County.
Ritter Elementary earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 76% of California public elementary schools.
Test results at Ritter Elementary are 16.6 points above what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate across its state test results is 39.1%, compared with a predicted 22.5%, which ranks in the top 10% in California.
In Los Angeles County, median household income comes to about $90,112, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Los Angeles County counts 2,244 public schools with about 1,265,907 students.
A public school about 0.5 miles away, Weigand Avenue Elementary, is the closest to Ritter Elementary. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, Ritter Elementary is ahead of the 30.0% nearby average, ranking 1st of 7.
NCES assigns Ritter Elementary the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 307, from 329 in 2020-21.
This page is set up for the Ritter Elementary community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Los Angeles County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
9,808,667
Census ACS
Median income
$90,112
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
2,244
1,265,907 students
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Other Ritter Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Ritter Elementary. Ritter Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Ritter Elementary SchoolAllentown, PA · 463 students
Nearby schools
- Weigand Avenue Elementary0.5 mi · 290
- Grape Street Elementary0.6 mi · 333
- Lincoln Elementary0.6 mi · 328
- Simon Rodia Continuation0.6 mi · 89
- Jordan High0.7 mi · 797
- Alliance Cindy and Bill Simon Technology Academy High0.7 mi · 474
Frequently asked questions
About Ritter ElementaryHow large is Ritter Elementary?
Ritter Elementary enrolls approximately 307 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Ritter Elementary serve?
Ritter Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Ritter Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Ritter Elementary is approximately 21.9:1 (14 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Ritter Elementary?
Student demographics at Ritter Elementary are roughly 1% White, 81% Hispanic, 12% Black, 6% Two or more.
What district is Ritter Elementary in?
Ritter Elementary is part of Los Angeles Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.