Sylmar Elementary

Sylmar Elementary is one of the intimate elementary campuss in Sylmar, California, overseen by Los Angeles Unified, with 393 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sylmar Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). The remainder consists of 3% White, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Sylmar Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 96% of students at Sylmar Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sylmar Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 22.2%; this one delivers 40.0%, a residual of +17.8 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) shows that median household income runs about $90,112, 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 Sylmar Elementary is one.

Olive Vista Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sylmar Elementary comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 33.4%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Sylmar Elementary's enrollment has contracted 30% since 2018, when it stood at 564 (now 393). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 today.

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