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Alumni: what's one memory from Sixty-First Street Elementary that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
541
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOS ANGELES UNIFIED·NCES 062271003358
Sixty-First Street Elementary
6020 South Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90003 · (323) 759-1138 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL541 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 77% 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.
- A+Three-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
19.3:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
535 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 65%
Community
6
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 | 130 | 24% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 68 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 88 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 44 | 8% |
This year's kindergarten class (130) is 195% larger than its 6th grade class (44).
Student demographics
27%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
Sixty-First Street Elementary→Mary McLeod Bethune 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
41.8%
CA avg 49.1% . +24.8pp since 2014
Math
47.5%
CA avg 37.7% . +33.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 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 25 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 34 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 20.7% | 21.1% | 22.3% | 35.9% |
| Math | 26.6% | 20.9% | 21.7% | 30.8% |
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 | 41.8% | 47.5% |
| 2023-24 | 30.2% | 27.9% |
| 2022-23 | 16.9% | 20.1% |
| 2021-22 | 19.4% | 15.1% |
| 2018-19 | 31.8% | 24.3% |
| 2017-18 | 23.6% | 20.6% |
| 2016-17 | 16.3% | 14.7% |
| 2015-16 | 21.0% | 15.0% |
| 2014-15 | 17.0% | 14.0% |
% 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
37.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
21.6%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% 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 16 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 Sixty-First Street Elementary
Sixty-First Street Elementary's state test result (37.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sixty-First Street Elementary this school | 541 | 98.9% | 37.7% |
| Menlo Avenue Elementary Los Angeles | 531 | 98.9% | 35.4% |
| Prosperity Elementary Bakersfield | 543 | 98.5% | 24.3% |
| Lankershim Elementary Highland | 551 | 97.1% | 18.2% |
| Gil Garcetti Learning Academy Los Angeles | 519 | 98.3% | 40.6% |
| Ninety-Second Street Elementary Los Angeles | 568 | 98.6% | 38.8% |
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 Sixty-First Street Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.7% | #2,692 of 5,151 | #661 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.5% | #1,754 of 5,172 ▲ 1,545 | #415 of 1,129 ▲ 413 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.8% | #2,745 of 5,172 ▲ 1,008 | #661 of 1,129 ▲ 233 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +27.4pp | #10 of 5,116 | #5 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 541 | #1,973 of 5,915 | #397 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.3:1 | #645 of 5,352 | #197 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.6% | #4,104 of 5,354 | #773 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.9% | #40 of 5,625 | #23 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.6% | #2,348 of 3,837 | #674 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
541
-86 (-14%) vs 2020
-47% since 1990-91, when it was 1,015
Student : Teacher
19.3:1
was 19.0:1
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 | 541 | 28 | 19.3:1 | 99% (535) |
| 2023-24 | 616 | 32 | 19.3:1 | 99% (607) |
| 2022-23 | 596 | 35 | 17.0:1 | 98% (583) |
| 2020-21 | 627 | 33 | 19.0:1 | 96% (605) |
| 2017-18 | 619 | 28.5 | 21.7:1 | 94% (583) |
| 2015-16 | 563 | 25 | 22.5:1 | 91% (510) |
| 2010-11 | 899 | N/A | N/A | 54% (489) |
| 2000-01 | 986 | 48 | 20.5:1 | 88% (872) |
| 1990-91 | 1,015 | 41 | 24.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sixty-First Street Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (619 to 541); teachers down 2% (28.5 to 28).
About Sixty-First Street Elementary
Sixty-First Street Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in Los Angeles, California. It enrolled 541 students in kindergarten through 6 for the 2024-25 school year.
The 784 schools of Los Angeles Unified, including Sixty-First Street Elementary, enroll 406,887 students.
Federal enrollment data show Sixty-First Street Elementary is 85% Hispanic. The school is also 10% Black and 4% multiracial. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 48%. The school's diversity index is 27%, meaning two students picked at random have a 27% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school reports 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 19.3 students per teacher. That is 3.0 students per teacher below the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 99% of students. Among public schools in Los Angeles County, the average eligibility rate is 70%.
Sixty-First Street Elementary is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 77% of California public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 21.6% for Sixty-First Street Elementary, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 37.7%. The 16.1-point gap ranks in the top 10% of California schools.
Los Angeles County census figures show that the median household income is $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. There are 2,244 public schools in Los Angeles County, enrolling about 1,265,907 students in all.
The shortest distance from Sixty-First Street Elementary to another public school is about 0.3 miles, to KIPP Scholar Academy. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Sixty-First Street Elementary places 2nd of 5 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Large.
Enrollment dropped 14% from its 2020-21 level of 627.
Questions about school safety, transportation, and start times can be posted here. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
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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Frequently asked questions
About Sixty-First Street ElementaryHow large is Sixty-First Street Elementary?
Sixty-First Street Elementary enrolls approximately 541 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Sixty-First Street Elementary serve?
Sixty-First Street Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Sixty-First Street Elementary?
Approximately 19.3:1 students per teacher at Sixty-First Street Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Sixty-First Street Elementary?
Student demographics at Sixty-First Street Elementary are roughly 1% White, 85% Hispanic, 10% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Sixty-First Street Elementary in?
Sixty-First Street Elementary is part of Los Angeles Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.