Alexandria Avenue Elementary

Located at 4211 Oakwood Ave., in Los Angeles, California, Alexandria Avenue Elementary is a moderately sized K-5 school that works with 502 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified.

Alexandria Avenue Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that teaches 406,887 students overall.

Demographically, Alexandria Avenue Elementary records that nearly all students (91%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Alexandria Avenue Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 24.6%; Alexandria Avenue Elementary posts 41.1%, +16.5 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, Los Angeles County reports that median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Alexandria Avenue Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Harvard Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Alexandria Avenue Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Alexandria Avenue Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 42.1%.

Alexandria Avenue Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 31%: 729 students in 2018 compared to 502 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 23.9:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 in 2025.

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