School overview
Sharp Avenue Elementary
Who governs Sharp Avenue Elementary and what the district's school-level budget records show. Part of Los Angeles Unified School District.
Who makes decisions for Sharp Avenue Elementary?
Sharp Avenue Elementary is governed by the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education rather than by its own school board. LAUSD's directory lists the school in Board District 6, represented there by Kelly Gonez, and identifies Derek J Brandt as principal. The public record collected here is strongest on school-level budget snapshots; it does not establish what a school-level council may have considered.
The governing board is districtwide
The school is one part of LAUSD and is listed in Board District 6. Families looking for districtwide policy or budget decisions should follow the LAUSD board; the collected sources do not show a separate Sharp Avenue board.
The school allocation uses student-need categories
LAUSD's 2025-26 allocation summary places Sharp in SENI Quintile 1, labelled HIGHEST, and shows an enrollment forecast of 428. The document says SENI funds are intended to improve or increase services for low-income students, English learners, and foster youth.
School-level totals are broader than classroom spending
The budget summaries include staffing, itinerant services, materials, facilities-related items, food-service funding and other categories. They should not be read as a per-classroom spending total or as a record of every districtwide service.
A published allocation is useful but it does not say why every line changed or prove that a planned amount was spent. The collected record also does not include local meeting minutes, so it cannot establish every decision affecting the school.
Where the school stands
The allocation summary reports 63.42 FTE and $9,323,429. It excludes the cafeteria budget.
ECast is the enrollment forecast used in the allocation document, not an actual enrollment count.
The FY27 summary reports a planned total as of February 10, 2026; it is not evidence that all planned amounts have been spent.
The FY27 summary lists 389 total students and projected average daily attendance of 322.30.
Major projects
FY27 school budget
Initial budget publishedLAUSD published an FY27 Sharp Avenue Elementary budget summary showing a total budget of $8,687,630. Staffing is listed at $6,054,433 across 47.07 FTE, while materials and supplies are listed at $1,615,094. This is a budget plan, not a record that the staffing or materials have already been delivered.
- LAUSD's FY27 Sharp Avenue budget summary is timestamped
Funding
LAUSD general-fund unrestricted and restricted funds, specially funded programs, and other listed funds
The source groups funding by account category and does not identify a separate grant for this project.
This overview uses Sharp Avenue Elementary's official LAUSD directory record and collected school-level allocation and budget summaries. Budget numbers are snapshots reported by LAUSD; they describe the funds and positions shown in the documents, not a complete measure of every service paid centrally by the district.
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