Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary

Located at 20620 Arminta St., in Winnetka, California, Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus that caters to 448 students (grades K through 5), operated by Los Angeles Unified.

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

Demographically, Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary shows that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 6% White, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.4%, the actual is 30.0%, a residual of +5.6 points.

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

The closest other public school is Multicultural Learning Center, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 31.6%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 17%: 543 students in 2018 compared to 448 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.7:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 today.

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