Del Sur Senior Elementary

Located at 9023 West Ave. H, in Lancaster, California, Del Sur Senior Elementary is an expansive elementary school that instructs 763 students (grades K through 8), one of the schools within Westside Union Elementary. That puts it 64% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Westside Union Elementary comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 9,078 students; Del Sur Senior Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Del Sur Senior Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 58% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 26% White, 10% Black, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Del Sur Senior Elementary shows 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 27.2:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Del Sur Senior Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 47.7%; Del Sur Senior Elementary posts 26.4%, -21.4 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Del Sur Senior Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Sundown Elementary, roughly 3.8 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Del Sur Senior Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 28.6%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Del Sur Senior Elementary's enrollment has edged down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 836 (now 763). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 43% to 26%.

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