Cimarron Avenue Elementary

Cimarron Avenue Elementary is one of the low-enrollment elementary-level communitys in Hawthorne, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified, with 261 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 44% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Cimarron Avenue Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Cimarron Avenue Elementary reports that 60% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder looks like 24% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 2% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 8% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Cimarron Avenue Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Cimarron Avenue Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.4%; this one delivers 33.5%.

In the broader community, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Cimarron Avenue Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Stella High Charter Academy, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cimarron Avenue Elementary. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cimarron Avenue Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 39.4%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cimarron Avenue Elementary has shrank 16%, going from 311 students in 2018 to 261 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 75% to 60% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 in 2025.

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