Amestoy Elementary

Amestoy Elementary, a medium-sized K-5 school in Gardena, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified, caters to 623 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 34% larger than the state mean of about 465.

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

Looking at the student body, Amestoy Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 72% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 19% Black, 6% Asian. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Amestoy Elementary has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Amestoy Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.9%, the actual is 41.8%, a residual of +13.9 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Amestoy Elementary is one campus in the mix.

One Hundred Fifty-Third Street 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 Amestoy Elementary. On composite proficiency, Amestoy Elementary comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 37.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 19%: 767 students in 2018 compared to 623 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 today.

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