Sunland Elementary

Sunland Elementary operates as a compact elementary-level community in Sunland, California, part of Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 282 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 39% below the state mean of about 465.

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

In terms of who attends, Sunland Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 60% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 24% White, 9% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Sunland Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Sunland Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.6%, the actual is 37.6%, a residual of +5.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Sunland Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Apperson Street Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sunland Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sunland Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 34.6%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 27%: 384 students in 2018 compared to 282 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share shrank from 9% to 3%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 in 2025.

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