Dolores Huerta Elementary

Dolores Huerta Elementary is one of the small K-5 schools in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified, with 321 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 31% smaller than typical.

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

In terms of who attends, Dolores Huerta Elementary records that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 5% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.4:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 99% of students at Dolores Huerta Elementary qualify 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.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Dolores Huerta Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 20.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 34.3%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) shows that median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Dolores Huerta Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: John Adams Middle, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Dolores Huerta Elementary comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 28.5%.

Dolores Huerta Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 28%: 443 students in 2018 compared to 321 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 in 2025.

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