Norwood Elementary

Norwood Street Elementary School is a public primary school located in Oak Street, Los Angeles, California at the heart of central Los Angeles. Norwood is part of Local District 7 of the Los Angeles Unified School District. It was founded back in 1895 and offers a pre-kindergarten through 5th grade education following a four-track (90/30) year round school calendar.

Aside from being both a LEARN and a School Based Managed school, Norwood is also recognized as a California Distinguished School because of the school's student achievement and community involvement. Norwood has a gifted/high ability program and a special education program that serves kindergarten to fifth grade learning-disabled students and kindergarten through second Autistic student.

Norwood's programs are not only for the students but for the parents as well, including Peace Games, Art Prototype, a self contained Healthy Start site, and a member of USC’S Family of Five. 28% of the school staff hold a BBC/BCLAD credential while 40% are Spanish speaking and hold district “A” fluency. An additional 20% of the staff posses a LDS/CLAD/SB1969.

Average Class Size

• Kindergarten: 20
• Grade 1: 16
• Grade 2: 19
• Grade 3: 17
• Grade 4: 29
• Grade 5: 29

Student-Staff Ratio

• Students per paraprofessional staff: 39
• Students per office/clerical staff: 158
• Students per other classified staff: 158