Sunnydale Elementary

Set in Lancaster, California, Sunnydale Elementary is a mid-tier K-5 school, overseen by Lancaster Elementary. It hosts 469 students across grades K through 6.

Sunnydale Elementary is one of 23 schools operated by Lancaster Elementary, a district that caters to 13,765 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Sunnydale Elementary lists that 60% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 22% Black, 10% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sunnydale Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.3%, the actual is 19.9%, a residual of -7.3 points.

Around the school, 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%. Sunnydale Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Lancaster Alternative and Virtual Academies, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sunnydale Elementary.

Sunnydale Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sunnydale Elementary has shrank 24%, going from 618 students in 2018 to 469 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 47% to 60% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 24.7:1 in 2018 to 21.3:1 in 2025.

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