Dolores Street Elementary

Dolores Street Elementary operates as a cozy primary school in Carson, California, run under Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 370 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Dolores Street Elementary sits 20% below that benchmark.

Across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students total), Dolores Street Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Dolores Street Elementary records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%; the rest comes out to 14% Asian, 10% Black, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Dolores Street Elementary lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 85% of students at Dolores Street Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Dolores Street Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 28.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.5%.

Across the wider county, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 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 Street Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Academies of Education and Empowerment at Carson High, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Dolores Street Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 45.2%.

Dolores Street Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 35%: 572 students in 2018 compared to 370 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 58% to 65%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.8:1 in 2018 to 21.8:1 today.

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