Strathern Street Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in North Hollywood, California, Strathern Street Elementary instructs 446 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Los Angeles Unified.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Strathern Street Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Strathern Street Elementary shows that nearly all students (81%) are Hispanic. The remainder consists of 11% White, 6% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.3:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Strathern Street Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.3%, the actual is 31.9%, a residual of +7.6 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Strathern Street Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Julie Korenstein Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Strathern Street Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Strathern Street Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 28.0%.

Strathern Street Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Strathern Street Elementary has decreased 27%, going from 607 students in 2018 to 446 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share declined from 86% to 81%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.3:1 in 2018 to 22.3:1 today.

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