Cohasset Street Elementary

As a moderately sized K-5 school in Lake Balboa, California, Cohasset Street Elementary caters to 451 students from grades K through 5, part of Los Angeles Unified.

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

Looking at the student body, Cohasset Street Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (88%). Beyond that, the school records 6% White, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Cohasset Street Elementary has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Cohasset Street Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 95% 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 meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Cohasset Street Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.8%; this one delivers 28.1%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household income runs about $90,112, 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 Cohasset Street Elementary is one.

Bassett Street Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cohasset Street Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cohasset Street Elementary at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 23.1%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cohasset Street Elementary has edged down 17%, going from 545 students in 2018 to 451 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.7:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 in 2025.

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