Atwater Avenue Elementary

Atwater Avenue Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. The school caters to 332 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 29% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Los Angeles Unified comprises 784 schools with combined enrollment of 406,887 students; Atwater Avenue Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Atwater Avenue Elementary records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 61%; the rest breaks down as 17% White, 13% multiracial, 7% Asian, 2% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Atwater Avenue Elementary has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 60% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Atwater Avenue Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.6%, the actual is 45.9%, a residual of +2.3 points.

In the area at large, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Atwater Avenue Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Alliance Leichtman-Levine Family Foundation Env Sci High, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Atwater Avenue Elementary at 2nd of 4; the average score across the group is 47.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Atwater Avenue Elementary's enrollment has expanded 8% since 2018, when it stood at 307 (now 332). Hispanic enrollment moved from 76% to 61% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.