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Does Teresa Hughes Elementary have enough mental health and stress support?
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Enrollment
515
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOS ANGELES UNIFIED·NCES 062271009395
Teresa Hughes Elementary
4242 Clara St., Cudahy, CA 90201 · (323) 560-4422 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL515 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 80% of California public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-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
20.2:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
498 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 | 86 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 88 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 73 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (86) is 18% larger than its 6th grade class (73).
Student demographics
4%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
42.2%
CA avg 49.1% . +17.2pp since 2014
Math
39.9%
CA avg 37.7% . +22.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 17 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 23 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 16.7% | 25.5% | 25.5% | 32.3% |
| Math | 17.0% | 23.0% | 32.9% | 27.2% |
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 | 42.2% | 39.9% |
| 2023-24 | 39.7% | 39.1% |
| 2022-23 | 34.2% | 30.3% |
| 2021-22 | 32.4% | 24.7% |
| 2018-19 | 36.4% | 27.0% |
| 2017-18 | 38.5% | 29.2% |
| 2016-17 | 28.9% | 27.1% |
| 2015-16 | 32.0% | 25.0% |
| 2014-15 | 25.0% | 17.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
40.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.9%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 23% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 18 points, placing it in California's top 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 Teresa Hughes Elementary
Teresa Hughes Elementary's state test result (40.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teresa Hughes Elementary this school | 515 | 96.7% | 40.4% |
| Peter Pendleton Elementary Coachella | 499 | 96.2% | 46.8% |
| Florence Avenue Elementary Los Angeles | 489 | 97.3% | 37.7% |
| Belvedere Elementary Los Angeles | 526 | 97.7% | 25.4% |
| Eastman Avenue Elementary Los Angeles | 545 | 96.3% | 23.5% |
| Washington Elementary Santa Ana | 529 | 95.7% | 24.0% |
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 Teresa Hughes Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.4% | #2,450 of 5,151 | #593 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.9% | #2,291 of 5,172 ▼ 30 | #574 of 1,129 ▼ 33 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.2% | #2,714 of 5,172 ▲ 52 | #657 of 1,129 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +12.5pp | #345 of 5,116 | #134 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 515 | #2,249 of 5,915 | #454 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.2:1 | #1,041 of 5,352 | #315 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 4.2% | #5,235 of 5,354 | #1,175 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.7% | #238 of 5,625 | #126 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -34.2% | #338 of 3,837 | #156 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
515
-149 (-22%) vs 2020
-51% since 1990-91, when it was 1,058
Student : Teacher
20.2:1
was 22.1:1
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 | 515 | 25.5 | 20.2:1 | 97% (498) |
| 2023-24 | 538 | 28 | 19.2:1 | 97% (520) |
| 2022-23 | 577 | 28 | 20.6:1 | 94% (542) |
| 2020-21 | 664 | 30 | 22.1:1 | 94% (625) |
| 2017-18 | 783 | 34 | 23.0:1 | 94% (739) |
| 2015-16 | 868 | 38 | 22.8:1 | 93% (806) |
| 2010-11 | 877 | N/A | N/A | 44% (385) |
| 2000-01 | 1,655 | 84 | 19.7:1 | 99% (1,631) |
| 1990-91 | 1,058 | 46 | 23.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Teresa Hughes Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 34% (783 to 515); teachers down 25% (34 to 25.5).
About Teresa Hughes Elementary
Teresa Hughes Elementary, located in Cudahy, California, is a mid-sized elementary school. In all, 515 students attend the school in kindergarten through 6.
Los Angeles Unified includes 784 schools. Together they enroll 406,887 students.
Hispanic students are 98% of those enrolled at Teresa Hughes Elementary. That compares with about 48% Hispanic among all Los Angeles County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 4%.
Teresa Hughes Elementary reported 25.5 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 20.2:1. Elementary schools in California average 22.3:1, 2.1 more students per teacher than here. There are 498 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 97% of enrollment. Public schools in Los Angeles County average 70%.
Teresa Hughes Elementary earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 80% of California public elementary schools.
Compared with California schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Teresa Hughes Elementary does better than predicted by 17.5 points. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 40.4%; the prediction is 22.9%.
In the surrounding county, Los Angeles County, the median household earns about $90,112 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Counting Teresa Hughes Elementary, Los Angeles County has 2,244 public schools.
Teresa Hughes Elementary is about 0.3 miles from Jaime Escalante Elementary, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, Teresa Hughes Elementary ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
NCES assigns Teresa Hughes Elementary the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 515, from 664 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher dropped from 22.1 to 20.2 over 4 years.
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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
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Frequently asked questions
About Teresa Hughes ElementaryHow large is Teresa Hughes Elementary?
Teresa Hughes Elementary enrolls approximately 515 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Teresa Hughes Elementary serve?
Teresa Hughes Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Teresa Hughes Elementary?
Approximately 20.2:1 students per teacher at Teresa Hughes Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Teresa Hughes Elementary?
Student demographics at Teresa Hughes Elementary are roughly 1% White, 98% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Two or more.
What district is Teresa Hughes Elementary in?
Teresa Hughes Elementary is part of Los Angeles Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.