Sherman Oaks Elementary Charter

Sherman Oaks Elementary Charter is one of the middle-of-the-pack primary schools in Sherman Oaks, California, part of Los Angeles Unified, with 511 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

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

On demographics, Sherman Oaks Elementary Charter logs that the most-represented group is White (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 26% Hispanic, 19% multiracial, 7% Black, 7% Asian. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 31% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sherman Oaks Elementary Charter tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.0%.

In the area at large, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Sherman Oaks Elementary Charter is one.

Ivy Bound Acad of Math Sci and Tech Charter Mid is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sherman Oaks Elementary Charter ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 57.8%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. Sherman Oaks Elementary Charter operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. Sherman Oaks Elementary Charter's enrollment has declined 38% since 2018, when it stood at 828 (now 511). The White share of enrollment edged down from 58% to 39% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 23.7:1 in 2018 to 22.2:1 in 2025.

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