Vanalden Avenue Elementary

Vanalden Avenue Elementary operates as an intimate K-5 school in Reseda, California, part of Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 369 students spanning grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 21% below typical.

Vanalden Avenue Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that teaches 406,887 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Vanalden Avenue Elementary shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 75%; the rest reads as 17% White, 5% Asian, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Vanalden Avenue Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Vanalden Avenue Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 27.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.9%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Vanalden Avenue Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Vanalden Avenue Elementary. On composite proficiency, Vanalden Avenue Elementary comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 42.2%.

Vanalden Avenue Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Vanalden Avenue Elementary has fell 11%, going from 416 students in 2018 to 369 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 13% to 17% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 in 2025.

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