Bonita Street Elementary

As a medium-sized elementary-level community in Carson, California, Bonita Street Elementary teaches 399 students from grades K through 5, part of Los Angeles Unified.

Bonita Street Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that enrolls 406,887 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bonita Street Elementary shows that 58% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 21% Asian, 12% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 78% of students at Bonita Street Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Bonita Street Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.1%; this one delivers 38.5%.

Around the school, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Bonita Street Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Andrew Carnegie Middle, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bonita Street Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 41.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 25%: 532 students in 2018 compared to 399 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 49% to 58% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 22.2:1 in 2018 to 21.0:1 today.

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