School overview
Norwood Street Elementary
Who governs Norwood, how its school budget is assembled, and what the public record currently shows. Part of Los Angeles Unified School District.
Who makes school-level decisions?
Norwood Street Elementary is part of Los Angeles Unified, not an independent district. LAUSD's directory places it in Board District 5 and identifies Susana Melgoza as principal. The public directory provides the school's budget reports, but the school website did not yield a usable online archive of School Site Council, ELAC, or Local School Leadership Council records during this review.
The district board governs the school
Norwood has no separate school board. Its governing agency is Los Angeles Unified School District, while the local school directory identifies Board District 5.
The school budget is centrally reported
LAUSD's allocation summary uses a budgeted enrollment forecast, Student Equity Need Index quintile, and norm category to show the resources assigned to Norwood's cost center.
Local council records were not publicly retrievable
The school site was blocked by Cloudflare through normal and two permitted browser routes. That prevents this page from claiming whether SSC, ELAC, or LSLC records were published online during the review window.
A blocked online archive does not mean the councils did not meet or that records were not posted physically. It only limits what could be verified from an accessible official online source.
Where the school stands
The allocation summary reports the planned total; it excludes cafeteria budget.
Full-time-equivalent positions in the 2025-26 allocation summary.
ECast is the forecast used in budget development, not an actual enrollment count.
LAUSD labels Quintile 2 as HIGH; the summary says these funds should improve or increase services for low-income students, English learners, and foster youth.
The report is a snapshot as of August 24, 2026, rather than an adopted annual allocation.
Major projects
Annual school allocation cycle
2025-26 allocation publishedLAUSD's 2025-26 allocation summary assigns Norwood $6.78 million and 42.83 FTE based on a forecast of 348 students. The accessible directory still links the 2024-25 and 2025-26 summaries; it does not yet link a 2026-27 summary.
- LAUSD allocation PDF for 2025-26 last modified
- Current budget-availability snapshot shows a $6.97 million modified budget
Funding
LAUSD general, restricted, special education, Title I, and other school-program resources
The allocation summary separates planned resources by fund and says cafeteria budget is not included.
This overview is based on four stored official LAUSD records: two school-allocation summaries, the current budget-availability report, and the current spending report. Norwood's school site could not be inventoried after normal HTTP, ISP-proxied browser, and Scraping Browser attempts all returned its Cloudflare challenge, so the public record here is limited to the open LAUSD directory and its linked reports.
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