Roscoe Elementary

Set in Sun Valley, California, Roscoe Elementary is a reasonably sized K-5 school, part of Los Angeles Unified. It teaches 481 students across grades K through 5.

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

In terms of who attends, Roscoe Elementary shows that nearly all students (90%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 4% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 91% of students at Roscoe Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Roscoe Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.4%; this one delivers 25.9%.

In the broader community, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household earnings sit near $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Roscoe Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Glenwood Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Roscoe Elementary comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 25.3%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Roscoe Elementary has shrank 19%, going from 594 students in 2018 to 481 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.0:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.