Budlong Avenue Elementary

Set in Los Angeles, California, Budlong Avenue Elementary is a medium-sized elementary campus, part of Los Angeles Unified. It teaches 624 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Budlong Avenue Elementary sits 34% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students total), Budlong Avenue Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Budlong Avenue Elementary logs that 81% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 16% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Budlong Avenue Elementary lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Budlong Avenue Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 21.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 19.9%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) reports that median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Budlong Avenue Elementary is one.

John Muir Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Budlong Avenue Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Budlong Avenue Elementary at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 19.0%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 28%: 871 students in 2018 compared to 624 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 24.2:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 in 2025.

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