Dorris Place Elementary

Dorris Place Elementary operates as an intimate primary school in Los Angeles, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 230 students spanning grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Dorris Place Elementary sits 51% leaner than that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, Dorris Place Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 79% of enrollment. Other groups include 12% Asian, 5% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, Dorris Place Elementary reports 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 83% of students at Dorris Place Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Dorris Place 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 29.8%; Dorris Place Elementary posts 56.1%, +26.3 points above that line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put 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%. Dorris Place Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Elysian Heights ES Arts Magnet, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dorris Place Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dorris Place Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 47.5%.

Dorris Place Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 29%: 322 students in 2018 compared to 230 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.0:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 today.

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