Bassett Street Elementary

Bassett Street Elementary is one of the medium-sized elementary-level communitys in Lake Balboa, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified, with 609 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 31% above typical.

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

On demographics, Bassett Street Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (88%); the rest is composed of 3% White, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian, 3% Black. 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, On paper, Bassett Street Elementary has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 96% of students at Bassett Street Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, Bassett Street Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.1%, the actual is 24.9%, a residual of +2.8 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household income runs about $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. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Bassett Street Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Columbus Avenue Elementary, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bassett Street Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 28.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Bassett Street Elementary's enrollment has contracted 24% since 2018, when it stood at 804 (now 609). Class-load math has tightened: from 23.6:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 in 2025.

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