Ambler Avenue Elementary

Ambler Avenue Elementary is an elementary campus of average-sized scale in Carson, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified, serveing 445 students in grades K through 5.

Across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students total), Ambler Avenue Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Ambler Avenue Elementary lists that 72% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 24% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.

On the income-and-resources front, Ambler Avenue Elementary lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Ambler Avenue Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Ambler Avenue Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.1%, the actual is 36.6%, a residual of +4.5 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Ambler Avenue Elementary is one.

Ralph Bunche Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ambler Avenue Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ambler Avenue Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 34.5%.

Ambler Avenue Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 25%: 592 students in 2018 compared to 445 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 14% to 24% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.7:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 today.

Inside the community feed, members of the Ambler Avenue Elementary community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.