Van Deene Avenue Elementary

As a cozy elementary-level community in Torrance, California, Van Deene Avenue Elementary enrolls 320 students from grades K through 6, run under Los Angeles Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 31% leaner than the state mean of about 465.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Van Deene Avenue Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Van Deene Avenue Elementary records that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 13% Asian, 4% White, 4% Black, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Van Deene Avenue Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.6%, the actual is 36.7%, a residual of +5.1 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records that median household income runs about $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Van Deene Avenue Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Halldale Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Van Deene Avenue Elementary at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 42.8%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Van Deene Avenue Elementary's enrollment has shrank 10% since 2018, when it stood at 357 (now 320). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 71% to 76%.

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