Billy Mitchell Elementary

Billy Mitchell Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Lawndale, California, part of Lawndale Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 471 students spanning grades K through 5.

Lawndale Elementary runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 4,314 students. Billy Mitchell Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Billy Mitchell Elementary shows that nearly all students (80%) are Hispanic. The remainder looks like 8% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% White, 3% Asian. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Billy Mitchell 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 35.0%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Billy Mitchell Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Lucille J. Smith Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Billy Mitchell Elementary at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 41.3%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Billy Mitchell Elementary has decreased 12%, going from 534 students in 2018 to 471 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 today.

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