Bandini Street Elementary

Bandini Street Elementary, a compact elementary school in San Pedro, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified, teaches 232 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Bandini Street Elementary sits 50% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Bandini Street Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Bandini Street Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (83%). Beyond that, the school reports 7% multiracial, 5% Black, 3% White, 3% 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 income-and-resources front, The school employs 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Bandini Street Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 88% of students at Bandini Street Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Bandini Street Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.4%; this one delivers 31.1%.

Across the wider county, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household income runs about $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Bandini Street Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Park Western Place Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bandini Street Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 43.6%.

Bandini Street Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Bandini Street Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 30% since 2018, when it stood at 330 (now 232).

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