Summary
Hart Street Elementary serves 699 students in kindergarten through grade 5 in Canoga Park, within Los Angeles Unified. Its 2025–26 results show improvement in all three tested subjects, but they remain below state and district results in every subject; its largest gap to the state is in ELA, at 19 percentage points.
Compared with nearby Los Angeles Unified K–5 schools, Hart is around the middle: it ranked third among six schools in ELA, math, and science. Its math is a relative bright spot: 29% of students were proficient, just above the nearby-school average of 28%, though below the state’s 38% and district’s 40%. Science proficiency was 25%, below the nearby average of 26% and the state’s 36%, but above results at Fullbright Avenue Elementary, Canoga Park Elementary, and Sunny Brae Avenue Elementary. ELA is the clearest weakness: Hart’s 30% was below the nearby average of 33%, the state’s 49%, and the district’s 48%. Within Hart, grade 3 math was stronger at 33%, while grade 4 math was lower at 24%, 19 points below the state result.
Hart’s results have risen since 2022–23, especially in science: proficiency increased 6 points in ELA, 7 in math, and 14 in science. Its gaps to the state narrowed in all three subjects, though its ELA and math gaps to the district widened. Chronic absenteeism also fell from 39% in 2021–22 to 20% in 2025–26, just 2 points above the state rate. SchoolDigger ranked Hart at the 27th percentile statewide and gave it 1 star in 2025–26; its student-teacher ratio was 21.8 in 2024–25, and 97% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. SchoolDigger’s student-group rankings offer a more positive note: the Special Education Students ranking was at the 45th percentile in 2025–26, versus 27th overall, and the English Language Learner Students ranking rose to the 35th percentile in 2023–24 from the 4th percentile in 2021–22.
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