Summary
Garvanza Elementary School Technology and Leadership Magnet is a K–5 public school in Los Angeles, serving 239 students in the Los Angeles Unified area. Its latest test results are strong: students scored above district and state levels in English language arts (ELA), math, and science. But the most important concern is attendance: chronic absenteeism was 27% in 2025–2026, higher than the district’s 23%, the state’s 18%, and every nearby school with a reported result.
Math is Garvanza’s strongest subject against district and state benchmarks: 56% of students were proficient, compared with 40% in the district and 38% statewide. ELA was 58%, versus 48% and 49%; science was 45%, versus 32% and 36%. Locally, however, Garvanza was fifth among 11 schools in ELA and math, and sixth among the 10 nearby schools reporting science results. Its science score was about the same as the nearby-school average of 45%. Results also vary by grade: fourth-grade math was 34%, 8 points below the state and 11 below the district, while third-grade math was 77%, the second-highest among nearby schools.
Scores have improved over the four reported years, but the gains were not steady: from 2022–2023 to 2025–2026, proficiency rose 9 points in ELA, 10 in math, and 11 in science, with much of the increase coming in the latest year. SchoolDigger ranks Garvanza 1,461 of 5,804 schools, at the 75th percentile and 4 stars. Its student-teacher ratio is 19.9, near the middle of the nearby range; in 2024–2025, 82% of students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for how well the school serves male students rose from 56 to 81 in one year, reaching 6 points above the school’s overall percentile.
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