Cabrillo Avenue Elementary

Located at 732 South Cabrillo Ave., in San Pedro, California, Cabrillo Avenue Elementary is a compact K-5 school that enrolls 303 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. That puts it 35% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

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

In terms of who attends, Cabrillo Avenue Elementary logs that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder consists of 9% Black, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Cabrillo Avenue Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cabrillo Avenue Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.4%; this one delivers 30.1%.

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

The closest other public school is Richard Henry Dana Middle, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Cabrillo Avenue Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 31.6%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 21%: 384 students in 2018 compared to 303 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 in 2025.

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