West Hollywood Elementary
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Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 51% 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 23 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About West Hollywood Elementary
Located at 970 North Hammond St., in West Hollywood, California, West Hollywood Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school that instructs 313 students (grades K through 5), part of Los Angeles Unified. That puts it 33% smaller 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; West Hollywood Elementary is among them.
Demographically, West Hollywood Elementary records that 63% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 16% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 31% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), West Hollywood Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 50.8%; West Hollywood Elementary posts 73.4%, +22.6 points above that line.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. West Hollywood Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).
Nearest neighbor: Rosewood Avenue Elementary, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around West Hollywood Elementary. On composite proficiency, West Hollywood Elementary comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 52.7%.
West Hollywood Elementary operates from a residential location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at West Hollywood Elementary has decreased 26%, going from 424 students in 2018 to 313 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share climbed from 4% to 10%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.9:1 in 2018 to 23.2:1 today.
On allk12, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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