Belvedere Elementary

Set in Los Angeles, California, Belvedere Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack primary school, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. It works with 526 students across grades K through 5.

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

On demographics, Belvedere Elementary reports that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Belvedere Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Belvedere Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 21.3%; this one delivers 26.4%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Belvedere Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Alliance College-Ready Middle Academy 8, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Belvedere Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 30.3%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 29%: 741 students in 2018 compared to 526 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 23.2:1 in 2018 to 20.2:1 in 2025.

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