Braddock Drive Elementary

Braddock Drive Elementary is a mid-sized K-5 school in Culver City, California, run under Los Angeles Unified. The school caters to 541 students in grades K through 5.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Braddock Drive Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Braddock Drive Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 30% Asian, 21% multiracial, 7% White, 5% Black. That is visibly less Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Braddock Drive Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 60% of students at Braddock Drive Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Braddock Drive Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 43.9%; this one delivers 69.6%, a residual of +25.7 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate 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%. Braddock Drive Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Stoner Avenue Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Braddock Drive Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 46.7%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 21%: 448 students in 2018 compared to 541 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 54% to 36%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 20.8:1 today.

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