Forty-Ninth Street Elementary: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Forty-Ninth Street posts 32% meeting the standard and 13.4% exceeding it, against 43% and 21.3% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 40 | 13% | 32% | -16.9 | 20.0% | 0.1% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Forty-Ninth Street Elementary scores 40 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 44th 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 “32% proficient” and call it done. Forty-Ninth 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.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 4th to the 44th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 2100 elementary schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 32% of students meet the standard today, above the 19% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 23% | 10% | 20% | 31% | 38% |
| Grade 4 | 17% | 12% | 14% | 28% | 27% |
| Grade 5 | 22% | 18% | 19% | 7% | 24% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 42% | 15% | 30% | 26% | 44% |
| Grade 4 | 5% | 9% | 8% | 29% | 33% |
| Grade 5 | 6% | 14% | 9% | 3% | 24% |
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 honest read: the share exceeding falls 5.2pp across grades; the floor slips 14.1pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
The 6 things our score weighs
Ask what the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.
- 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 Forty-Ninth Street Elementary in Los Angeles, 30.3% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Forty-Ninth Street Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 10.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (33.0% Math proficient); Hispanic students (31.2% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 22.6 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 218 students tested.
5 of 11 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 falls by 14.4pp 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 twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (24.8% vs 12.4%). 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
$3,238 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), 11% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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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 | 68 | 13% | 25% | 26% | 35% | 38% | −5 |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 8% | 19% | 25% | 48% | 27% | −17 |
| Grade 5 | 87 | 8% | 16% | 18% | 57% | 24% | −24 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 73 | 25% | 19% | 23% | 33% | 44% | −2 |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 13% | 20% | 32% | 35% | 33% | −8 |
| Grade 5 | 87 | 13% | 11% | 25% | 51% | 24% | −11 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 87 | 2% | 9% | 64% | 24% |
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 | 218 | 30.3% | −11 | −8 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 205 | 31.2% | −10 | −8 |
| English Learners | 76 | 7.9% | +1 | −3 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forty-Ninth Street Elementary ← | — | 40 | 13.4% | 31.9% | −16.9 | 0.1% |
| Sixty-First Street Elementary | 1.5 mi | 61 | 18.8% | 38.5% | −3.7 | 0.4% |
| Vernon City Elementary | 1.8 mi | 59 | 37.0% | 59.4% | −31.9 | 0.3% |
| Vermont Avenue Elementary | 2.9 mi | 58 | 23.9% | 51.5% | −7.8 | 0.1% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 21 | 4 | #5280 | 6.4% | 19.2% | 17.7% | 0.1% | -18.6pp |
| 2022 | 24 | 17 | #4753 | 3.3% | 12.9% | 50.9% | 0.0% | +2.9pp |
| 2023 | 23 | 10 | #5163 | 6.8% | 16.5% | 30.6% | 0.2% | -11.4pp |
| 2024 | 24 | 7 | #5315 | 5.5% | 20.6% | 24.6% | 0.1% | -23.1pp |
| 2025 | 40 | 44 | #3198 | 13.4% | 31.9% | 20.0% | 0.1% | -16.9pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 16.2% | 18.2% | +2.0pp |
| Male | 19.6% | 22.1% | +2.5pp |
| Black/African American | 55.6% | 43.2% | -12.4pp |
| Filipino | 23.1% | 20.0% | -3.1pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 15.3% | 17.4% | +2.1pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 27.1% | 38.5% | +11.4pp |
| English Learners | 14.2% | 15.2% | +1.0pp |
| Foster Youth | 38.5% | — | — |
| Homeless | 28.6% | 31.1% | +2.5pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 17.3% | 20.4% | +3.1pp |
| All Students | 17.8% | 20.1% | +2.3pp |
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