Evergreen Avenue Elementary, Los Angeles CA

Original Research by School Decision on Evergreen Avenue Elementary

Evergreen Avenue Elementary serves a small enrollment of about five hundred students from kindergarten through sixth grade in the 90033 zip code of Los Angeles, within Los Angeles Unified. The neighborhood is predominantly Hispanic, with a high share of students from low-income families; nearly all students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The school is a regular public school with no charter or magnet designation.

State testing results from the most recent year show academic performance that is consistently low across tested grades and subjects. In math, proficiency ranges from near a fifth of students in the upper grades to roughly half in third grade. In English language arts, proficiency is somewhat higher in the early grades, around two-fifths in third grade, but drops to roughly a third in fourth grade before recovering slightly by fifth and sixth grades, where it sits near two-fifths. Science proficiency, where tested in fifth grade, is quite low. When averaged across all tested subjects and grades, Evergreen Avenue's overall proficiency falls in the bottom quarter among schools in Los Angeles County. A parent may want to look into further what interventions the school has in place and what year-to-year progress, if any, is underway.

The school operates within Los Angeles Unified, which recently implemented two district-wide changes that affect daily school life. In February, the district adopted a full-day cellphone ban affecting all students, a shift to how students communicate and how families reach them during the school day. Additionally, in 2025, voters approved a large school facilities bond to repair and upgrade aging district buildings; this bond is funded through a property tax increase that could extend for decades and will affect families considering a move to the area.

The Los Angeles neighborhood where Evergreen Avenue sits is part of a sprawling, polycentric city with sharp variation by district. The area near the school is predominantly residential and mixed-use. Los Angeles overall is car-dependent, though Metro bus and rail service does exist. Downtown Los Angeles has undergone revitalization, and the broader region has entered an active rezoning and housing growth phase driven by long-standing housing shortages, though recent construction has slowed due to high interest rates and labor costs. Housing costs in the area remain high relative to income, and have declined modestly over the past year.

Evergreen Avenue serves the community where it sits, a regular public school without specialized programs in the available data. A family considering enrollment would be entering a school with persistent academic challenges and limited external distinction, situated in a high-poverty neighborhood within a large urban district managing property-tax-funded infrastructure and enforcing a new culture shift around device use.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 349%

School 49% · District 48% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

Grade 428%

School 28% · District 43% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

Grade 527%

School 27% · District 36% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▼ 4 pts below state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Grade 619%

School 19% · District 35% · ▼ 16 pts below district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 340%

School 40% · District 44% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▼ 2 pts below county median

Grade 434%

School 34% · District 45% · ▼ 11 pts below district

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Grade 538%

School 38% · District 47% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Grade 637%

School 37% · District 46% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Science

Grade 517%

School 17% · District 29% · ▼ 12 pts below district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

This schoolLos Angeles Unified, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.