San Fernando Elementary

San Fernando Elementary is a medium-sized elementary campus in San Fernando, California, overseen by Los Angeles Unified. The school hosts 421 students in grades K through 5.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. San Fernando Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, San Fernando Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (97%). The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, San Fernando Elementary has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting San Fernando Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 94% of students at San Fernando Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, San Fernando Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.3%, the actual is 29.3%, a residual of +6.0 points.

In the area at large, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), San Fernando Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: O'Melveny Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, San Fernando Elementary comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 28.4%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 33%: 630 students in 2018 compared to 421 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 22.5:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the San Fernando Elementary community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.