Broadway Elementary

Broadway Elementary is a K-5 school of moderately sized scale in Venice, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified, enrolling 546 students in grades K through 5.

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

Looking at the student body, Broadway Elementary records that the most-represented group is multiracial (32%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 27% Asian, 24% Hispanic, 13% White, 4% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.3:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 26% of students at Broadway Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. 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, Broadway 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 64.1%; this one delivers 82.4%, a residual of +18.3 points.

Across the wider county, 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. Broadway Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Animo Venice Charter High, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Broadway Elementary. On composite proficiency, Broadway Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 52.7%.

Broadway Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 12%: 618 students in 2018 compared to 546 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 19% to 13% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.4:1 in 2018 to 22.3:1 today.

On allk12, the feed for Broadway Elementary typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.