Welcome

Kester Elementary / Magnet is a diverse learning community of over 1,000 students, teaching kindergarten through fifth grade.   Our school, in Local District Northeast of the Los Angeles Unified School District, is comprised of a home school and a gifted/high ability magnet school (grades 1-5). Emphasis on core academic subjects is enhanced by an enriched curriculum of art, music, and physical education. 

Our philosophy at Kester Avenue Elementary/Kester Magnet ensures that we are providing a high-quality instructional program for all students; while valuing the diversity of our students, cultivating community, and providing enrichment programs to showcase creative avenues for learning. 

In 2022, the United States Secretary of Education named Kester Elementary/Kester Magnet as a National Blue Ribbon School.

Kester’s most recent Academic Performance Index (API) score was 913 out of a possible 1,000 - the highest API of all Sherman Oaks schools. 

In 2019 the State Department of Education named Kester a Distinguished California School.

The original buildings and grounds of Kester Avenue Elementary were designed in 1953 by Richard Neutra, one of the world's most prominent modernist architects.