The top reported proficiency rate is 29% in Math. The lowest is 10% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Harrison Street Elementary
Harrison Street Elementary sits on City Terrace Drive in the eastern reaches of Los Angeles, a neighborhood that sits well apart from the Westside and San Fernando Valley communities that often draw the most attention when families research LAUSD. The school serves kindergarten through sixth grade as a regular public school within Los Angeles Unified, the nation's second-largest district.
The student body is tightly concentrated by both income and ethnicity. Nearly all enrolled students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing the school firmly at the high end of economic need. Hispanic students make up nearly the entire enrollment, with very small numbers of students from other backgrounds. Data on English learner rates and IEP rates were not available in what was provided, so parents should ask the school directly about its language support services and special education staffing.
State assessment results from the 2024-25 California CAASPP come with an important caveat: only one year of data is present, so no trend can be drawn from what's here. The overall picture across tested grades in both English language arts and math places the school in the bottom quartile relative to districts in Los Angeles County, and individual grade-level results are uneven in a way that deserves attention. In third grade, proficiency in ELA and math is low. Fourth grade results are markedly higher in both subjects, reaching roughly three in five students. Fifth grade drops sharply again in both ELA and math, with science results on the CAST also low. That grade-to-grade variation is wide enough that parents may want to ask the school what explains it and how teachers are supporting continuity across years.
Program offerings were not available in the data provided, so specific information about enrichment, arts, bilingual programs, or after-school options is a gap a parent would need to fill by contacting the school or the LAUSD school finder directly.
Two district-level changes are worth knowing. LAUSD implemented a full school-day cellphone ban in early 2025, covering lunch and breaks as well as instructional time, with many schools using lockable pouches. For an elementary school like Harrison Street, this mostly affects older grades but sets the tone for the culture students will carry into middle school. Separately, voters approved a large school facilities bond, publicly reported as LAUSD's largest ever, that is repaid through a long-term property tax increase. Anyone buying a home in the district should factor that into their cost calculations.
The housing market in the zip code around the school reflects Los Angeles broadly. Home values sit well above the national midpoint but are down slightly year over year. Rents have also dipped slightly. Even so, the estimated monthly cost of ownership is steep relative to national income benchmarks, and publicly reported data suggest the rent-to-income ratio in this area exceeds what financial guidance typically calls sustainable. City Terrace itself is one of the denser residential corridors on the eastern edge of the city, distinct from suburban Valley neighborhoods and from the coastal Westside, with the character of a close-in working-class urban district rather than a suburban one.
Chronic absenteeism data were not available, which is a real gap: for schools serving high shares of economically disadvantaged students, attendance patterns often shape outcomes more than any other single factor. Graduation rate data do not apply here, since the school serves only elementary grades.
For a family enrolling a child in kindergarten, the school offers the geographic and community continuity of a neighborhood campus. The academic results as they stand are low overall, though the fourth-grade picture shows the school is capable of reaching much higher proficiency rates with at least some cohorts. Parents who want to understand what drives the grade-to-grade variation and what support systems exist for students who are not yet reading or computing at grade level will get the clearest picture by visiting and asking those questions directly.
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