Wonderland Avenue Elementary

Wonderland Avenue Elementary is one of the middle-of-the-pack primary schools in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified, with 435 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Los Angeles Unified comprises 784 schools with combined enrollment of 406,887 students; Wonderland Avenue Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Wonderland Avenue Elementary records that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 18% multiracial, 18% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 2% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 31% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 27% of students at Wonderland Avenue Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Wonderland Avenue 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 63.6%; Wonderland Avenue Elementary posts 91.5%, +27.9 points above that line.

In the broader community, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Wonderland Avenue Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Larchmont Charter, roughly 1.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wonderland Avenue Elementary. On composite proficiency, Wonderland Avenue Elementary comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 63.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Wonderland Avenue Elementary's enrollment has shrank 17% since 2018, when it stood at 522 (now 435). The White share of enrollment decreased from 63% to 53% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 26.1:1 in 2018 to 24.2:1 today.

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