Van Nuys Elementary

Set in Van Nuys, California, Van Nuys Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school, operated by Los Angeles Unified. It serves 459 students across grades K through 5.

Van Nuys Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that educates 406,887 students overall.

Demographically, Van Nuys Elementary records that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 3% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Van Nuys Elementary has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.9:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 97% of students at Van Nuys 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 above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Van Nuys Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 21.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.0%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 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 Nuys Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Ararat Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Van Nuys Elementary comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.9%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Van Nuys Elementary's enrollment has shrank 28% since 2018, when it stood at 634 (now 459). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 today.

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