Beethoven Elementary

Beethoven Street Elementary School is located in Beethoven Street, Los Angeles. The school was built and established in 1949 and is currently offering kindergarten through fifth grade classes to 400 plus students. A member of the Los Angeles Unified School District, Beethoven Elementary follows a single track calendar year.

Beethoven prides itself in providing the highest quality education, as evident by its Academic Performance Index (API), scoring 8 out of the possible 10. It also scored 10 out of 10 based on the relative school ranking.

School Statistics

Beethoven Elementary's teachers are one of the more experienced batch of teachers in the district as they have a 15 year teaching average. Their average years teaching in the district is 14, with 0% first year teachers. The faculty has a full credential of 95% compared to the 94% state average.

The average class size for kindergarten is 19, 17 for grade 1, 20 both for grades 2 and 3, 25 for grade 4, and 28 for grade 5. Comparing to the state averages (21, 19, 19, 20, 29, 29 respectively), the school's class sizes are just enough for the teachers to provide essential supervision and attention to their students. The student-staff ratios on the other hand are as follows: 21 Students per paraprofessional staff, 86 Students per office/clerical staff, and 69 Students per other classified staff.

Beethoven's school population represents a diversity of ethnic backgrounds, but majority of which are of Hispanic or Latino descent (67%). Other ethnicities are White (22%), African Americans (6%), Asian (2%), Filipino (2%), Pacific Islander (less than 1%), and American Indian or Alaskan (less than 1%).