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What's one thing Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
448
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOS ANGELES UNIFIED·NCES 062271003380
Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary
20620 Arminta St., Winnetka, CA 91306 · (818) 341-0931 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL448 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 45% of California public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-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
19.5:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
414 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 | 108 | 24% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (108) is 54% larger than its 5th grade class (70).
Student demographics
26%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
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
31.5%
CA avg 49.1% . +7.5pp since 2014
Math
28.1%
CA avg 37.7% . +7.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 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 8 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 12.5% | 19.0% | 27.0% | 41.5% |
| Math | 8.6% | 19.5% | 30.5% | 41.4% |
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 | 31.5% | 28.1% |
| 2023-24 | 31.1% | 28.5% |
| 2022-23 | 30.6% | 28.4% |
| 2021-22 | 26.5% | 24.0% |
| 2018-19 | 28.3% | 20.8% |
| 2017-18 | 27.0% | 21.2% |
| 2016-17 | 31.2% | 21.8% |
| 2015-16 | 32.0% | 26.0% |
| 2014-15 | 24.0% | 21.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
29.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.4%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 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 Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary
Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary's state test result (29.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary this school | 448 | 92.4% | 29.9% |
| Ranchito Avenue Elementary Panorama City | 421 | 90.7% | 40.1% |
| Walnut Elementary La Habra | 446 | 90.8% | 25.6% |
| Frank Sparkes Elementary Winton | 422 | 92.7% | 60.7% |
| Winfield Elementary Winton | 444 | 92.6% | 34.7% |
| Benjamin F. Beswick Elementary Tustin | 426 | 90.8% | 33.1% |
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 Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.9% | #3,525 of 5,151 | #888 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.1% | #3,409 of 5,172 ▼ 176 | #880 of 1,129 ▼ 71 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.5% | #3,825 of 5,172 ▼ 155 | #937 of 1,129 ▼ 62 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.5pp | #1,809 of 5,116 | #504 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 448 | #3,056 of 5,915 | #634 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.5:1 | #721 of 5,352 | #216 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.3% | #4,118 of 5,354 | #778 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.4% | #784 of 5,625 | #341 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.5% | #1,707 of 3,837 | #563 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
448
-58 (-11%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 657
Student : Teacher
19.5:1
was 21.1:1
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 | 448 | 23 | 19.5:1 | 92% (414) |
| 2023-24 | 440 | 26.5 | 16.6:1 | 93% (411) |
| 2022-23 | 453 | 24 | 18.9:1 | 94% (424) |
| 2020-21 | 506 | 24 | 21.1:1 | 93% (469) |
| 2017-18 | 543 | 25 | 21.7:1 | 90% (490) |
| 2015-16 | 564 | 26 | 21.7:1 | 88% (494) |
| 2010-11 | 679 | N/A | N/A | 88% (600) |
| 2000-01 | 874 | 45 | 19.4:1 | 86% (751) |
| 1990-91 | 657 | 27 | 24.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (543 to 448); teachers down 8% (25 to 23).
About Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary
Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school located in Winnetka, California. Enrollment totals 448 students across kindergarten through 5.
Los Angeles Unified has 784 schools and 406,887 students, and Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary is one of those schools.
Hispanic students are 85% of those enrolled at Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary. The rest of enrollment is 6% White, 4% Asian, and 3% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Los Angeles County's population at about 48%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 26, compared with 70 nationally.
There are 23 full-time-equivalent teachers at Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary, giving a ratio of 19.5:1. Elementary schools in California average 22.3:1, 2.8 more students per teacher than here. A total of 414 students, or 92%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Los Angeles County report 70%.
Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary earns a B- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 45% of California public elementary schools.
Compared with California schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary's results are 4.5 points above predicted: 29.9% against 25.4%.
In Los Angeles County, median household income comes to about $90,112, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Los Angeles County counts 2,244 public schools with about 1,265,907 students.
Multicultural Learning Center is the nearest public school to Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary, about 0.5 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary comes in 3rd of 5 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Its location is classified as City: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Enrollment fell 11% over 4 years, reaching 448 in 2024-25. The ratio was 21.1:1 in 2020-21 and 19.5:1 in 2024-25.
Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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
Quick facts
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- N.E.W. Academy Canoga Park1.0 mi · 399
- Ingenium Charter Middle1.0 mi · 179
Frequently asked questions
About Sunny Brae Avenue ElementaryHow many students attend Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary?
Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary enrolls approximately 448 students in grades KG-05.
Is Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary have?
Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary?
Student demographics at Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary are roughly 6% White, 85% Hispanic, 1% Black, 4% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary?
Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary is overseen by Los Angeles Unified in Los Angeles County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.