Ascot Avenue Elementary

Ascot Avenue Elementary, a medium-sized elementary campus in Los Angeles, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified, enrolls 610 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Ascot Avenue Elementary sits 31% above that benchmark.

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

In terms of who attends, Ascot Avenue Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). Beyond that, the school shows 3% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Ascot Avenue Elementary has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.7:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Ascot 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 21.4%; Ascot Avenue Elementary posts 37.4%, +16.0 points above that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records that median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Ascot Avenue Elementary is one.

Nava College Preparatory Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ascot Avenue Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 26.6%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Ascot Avenue Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 30% since 2018, when it stood at 870 (now 610). Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 in 2025.

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