City Terrace Elementary

City Terrace Elementary operates as a modestly sized primary school in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 313 students spanning grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 33% leaner than typical.

Los Angeles Unified comprises 784 schools with combined enrollment of 406,887 students; City Terrace Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, City Terrace Elementary logs that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder consists of 6% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), City Terrace 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 32.7%; City Terrace Elementary posts 54.5%, +21.9 points above that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), City Terrace Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Virtual Academy STEAM, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts City Terrace Elementary at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 38.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. City Terrace Elementary's enrollment has declined 31% since 2018, when it stood at 452 (now 313). The Asian share of enrollment declined from 15% to 6% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.8:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 today.

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