Sylmar Leadership Academy

Sylmar Leadership Academy operates as a heavily attended elementary-level community in Sylmar, California, part of Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 850 students spanning grades K through 8. That puts it 83% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sylmar Leadership Academy logs that nearly all students (93%) are Hispanic; the rest reads as 2% White, 2% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.8:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, Sylmar Leadership Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 30.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.1%.

Across the wider county, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household earnings sit near $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. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Sylmar Leadership Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Olive Vista Middle, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sylmar Leadership Academy. On composite proficiency, Sylmar Leadership Academy comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 33.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 7%: 912 students in 2018 compared to 850 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.4:1 in 2018 to 20.8:1 today.

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