Sylvan Park Elementary

Sylvan Park Elementary is an elementary school of mid-tier scale in Van Nuys, California, overseen by Los Angeles Unified, educateing 643 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 38% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Los Angeles Unified comprises 784 schools with combined enrollment of 406,887 students; Sylvan Park Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Sylvan Park Elementary shows that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder reads as 4% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Sylvan Park Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 97% of students at Sylvan Park Elementary qualify 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Sylvan Park 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 22.5%; this one delivers 38.1%, a residual of +15.6 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Sylvan Park Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Will Rogers Continuation is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sylvan Park Elementary at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 39.4%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sylvan Park Elementary has edged down 27%, going from 882 students in 2018 to 643 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 23.8:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 in 2025.

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