Century Park Elementary

Century Park Elementary is one of the small elementary campuss in Inglewood, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified, with 256 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Century Park Elementary sits 45% below that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, Century Park Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 44% Black, 7% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Los Angeles County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Century Park 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 21.3%; Century Park Elementary posts 39.1%, +17.8 points above that line.

Around the school, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Century Park Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Woodworth-Monroe Academy, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Century Park Elementary comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 19.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Century Park Elementary has decreased 23%, going from 331 students in 2018 to 256 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 58% to 44%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.5:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 today.

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