Broadacres Avenue Elementary Visual & Performing Arts Magnet

As a cozy elementary-level community in Carson, California, Broadacres Avenue Elementary Visual & Performing Arts Magnet enrolls 275 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Los Angeles Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 41% below typical.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Broadacres Avenue Elementary Visual & Performing Arts Magnet is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Broadacres Avenue Elementary Visual & Performing Arts Magnet lists that Black students make up the majority at 72%. Beyond that, the school logs 16% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Broadacres Avenue Elementary Visual & Performing Arts Magnet reports 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Broadacres Avenue Elementary Visual & Performing Arts Magnet tighter than the state norm the norm. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Broadacres Avenue Elementary Visual & Performing Arts Magnet performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.6%, the actual is 29.7%, a residual of +1.1 points.

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 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 Broadacres Avenue Elementary Visual & Performing Arts Magnet is one.

Nearest neighbor: Glenn Hammond Curtiss Middle, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Broadacres Avenue Elementary Visual & Performing Arts Magnet at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 48.5%.

Broadacres Avenue Elementary Visual & Performing Arts Magnet operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 3%: 267 students in 2018 compared to 275 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 79% to 72% over that span.

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