Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary

Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary School is a K-5 public elementary school located in East 103rd Street, Los Angeles, California. The school is part of Local District 7 of the Los Angeles Unified School District and follows a traditional single track school calendar. The school currently has approximately 1042 enrollees from kindergarten through grade 5.

Rankings

From the 2006 California Academic Performance Index (API) Base report, the school has an API score of 564, giving them a State Rank of 1 (1 is the worst, 10 is the best).

School Statistics

89% of Griffith Joyner Elementary's teachers are with full teaching credentials while 6% have emergency credentials. They also average 9 years in teaching experience as a group, with 9 average years teaching in the district. Only 6% of the Griffith Elementary faculty are first year teachers

The school's average class size is 20 for both kindergarten and grade 1, 19 for both grades 2 and 3, 27 for grade 4, and 31 for grade 5. The school's student-staff ratio is as follows: 45 Students per paraprofessional staff, 208 Students per office/clerical staff, and 130 Students per other classified staff

A chunk of the school's student population are of Hispanic or Latino descent (64%), with the rest being African American (36%), and American Indian or Alaska Native (less than 1%).