Brainard Elementary

Brainard Elementary is one of the micro-enrollment elementary schools in Lake View Terrace, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified, with 160 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 66% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

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

In terms of who attends, Brainard Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 12% White, 9% Black, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Brainard Elementary lists 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Brainard Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 74% of students at Brainard Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Brainard Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 35.2%; Brainard Elementary posts 52.9%, +17.7 points above that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs 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%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Brainard Elementary is one campus in the mix.

PUC Lakeview Charter Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 157 students in 2018 compared to 160 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 67% to 73% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 in 2025.

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