Fifty-Second Street Elementary: The scores are below where anyone wants them. Here's what they don't tell you.
Fifty-Second Street posts low test scores — and suspensions run below the state rate (0.7% vs 1.6%). If this is your zoned school, the numbers below are where to start a conversation, not where to end one.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 32 | 8% | 20% | -3.0 | 26.5% | 0.7% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Fifty-Second Street Elementary scores 32 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 21st percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🌱 Building Momentum — This label means the data doesn't clearly sort the school one way or the other — ask what the school is proud of, and what it's working on.
Most rating sites would stop at “20% proficient” and call it done. Fifty-Second Street deserves a closer read. The school sits in Los Angeles, where nearly all students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Test scores are one lens, and at this school they're a rough one right now. The sections below show the fuller picture — including the parts that are working.
The seven-year arc
Has stayed near the 21st percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 20% meet the standard today, versus 23% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 27% | 25% | 20% | 27% | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 27% | 19% | 26% | 24% | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 27% | 21% | 29% | 27% | 22% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 18% | 22% | 20% | 27% | 24% |
| Grade 4 | 21% | 10% | 12% | 18% | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 17% | 10% | 10% | 17% | 17% |
The story this school is actually telling
The school, grade by grade
ELA · CAASPP 2024–25Different students, same year — each bar is one grade's proficiency mix.
The 6 things our score weighs
Ask what changed in the last two years, and what the school is asking families for. Growth shows up in these numbers a year or two after it shows up in classrooms.
- Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
- Ask what changes between grade 3 and grade 5 here, and who teaches the older kids.
- Ask whether the tour can step into a working classroom — watch how the teacher handles a student who's stuck.
- Ask to tour while school's in session, and notice how hallways and transitions feel — culture shows up between classes, not just in them.
- Ask how the school communicates with families when a child starts to struggle.
- Ask what a typical day looks like for a new student in the first few weeks.
How every group of students does here
At Fifty-Second Street Elementary in Los Angeles, 19.7% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Fifty-Second Street Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 21.3 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (20.7% Math proficient); Hispanic students (18.4% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 19.2 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 285 students tested.
5 of 13 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Change in proficiency from the lowest tested grade — which groups gain ground the longer they stay. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 1.6pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.5pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly one and a half times the rate of Grades 4–6 students (37.2% vs 24.4%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Feeder patterns derived from NCES attendance boundary data. Boundaries are approximate and may have changed — verify with your school district for current assignments.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$3,156 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.
The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.
District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.
Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →
The neighborhood it serves
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 13% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
Frequently asked questions
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Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 59
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
A low score doesn't tell the whole story. Read: Your School Scored Low — Here's What That Actually Means
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 100 | 8% | 12% | 20% | 60% | 20% | −23 |
| Grade 4 | 99 | 9% | 7% | 19% | 65% | 16% | −29 |
| Grade 5 | 93 | 10% | 12% | 15% | 63% | 22% | −26 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 103 | 8% | 17% | 23% | 52% | 24% | −21 |
| Grade 4 | 100 | 2% | 17% | 27% | 54% | 19% | −23 |
| Grade 5 | 96 | 9% | 7% | 24% | 59% | 17% | −19 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 96 | 7% | 5% | 44% | 44% |
CAST is tested in grades 5, 8, and once in high school — not annually. Not part of the Scope Score.
| Subgroup · ELA | Tested | MET+ | vs district | vs CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 285 | 19.7% | −21 | −19 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 234 | 18.4% | −23 | −20 |
| English Learners | 86 | 0.0% | −7 | −10 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fifty-Second Street Elementary ← | — | 32 | 7.7% | 19.6% | −3.0 | 0.7% |
| Sixty-First Street Elementary | 0.8 mi | 61 | 18.8% | 38.5% | −3.7 | 0.4% |
| Vermont Avenue Elementary | 2.4 mi | 58 | 23.9% | 51.5% | −7.8 | 0.1% |
| West Vernon Avenue Elementary | 0.7 mi | 57 | 19.1% | 41.8% | +5.9 | 0.1% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 28 | 13 | #4783 | 4.6% | 22.9% | 26.0% | 0.0% | -0.4pp |
| 2022 | 20 | 8 | #5281 | 6.8% | 17.7% | 57.1% | 0.8% | -7.9pp |
| 2023 | 27 | 18 | #4675 | 6.8% | 19.8% | 47.9% | 1.4% | -0.7pp |
| 2024 | 33 | 25 | #4278 | 8.0% | 23.3% | 23.9% | 0.7% | -5.5pp |
| 2025 | 32 | 21 | #4557 | 7.7% | 19.6% | 26.5% | 0.7% | -3.0pp |
- — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 19 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 27.8% | 27.0% | -0.8pp |
| Male | 24.7% | 26.7% | +2.0pp |
| Black/African American | 49.6% | 45.8% | -3.8pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 22.3% | 22.3% | +0.0pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 43.7% | 34.8% | -8.9pp |
| English Learners | 21.8% | 20.6% | -1.2pp |
| Foster Youth | 15.8% | — | — |
| Homeless | 44.9% | 51.9% | +7.0pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 26.4% | 27.2% | +0.8pp |
| All Students | 26.2% | 26.9% | +0.7pp |
| Filipino | — | 58.8% | — |
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