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Dr. James Edward Jones Primary Center
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7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Dr. James Edward Jones Primary Center
Set in Los Angeles, California, Dr. James Edward Jones Primary Center is a rural-scale K-5 school, run under Los Angeles Unified. It educates 96 students across grades K through 2. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Dr. James Edward Jones Primary Center sits 79% below that benchmark.
Dr. James Edward Jones Primary Center is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that serves 406,887 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Dr. James Edward Jones Primary Center lists that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder comes out to 10% Black, 4% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.
In terms of school funding signals, Dr. James Edward Jones Primary Center logs 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) reports that 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%. Dr. James Edward Jones Primary Center is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).
ICEF Innovation Los Angeles Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dr. James Edward Jones Primary Center.
Dr. James Edward Jones Primary Center operates from a metropolitan location.
Over the past 7-year window. Dr. James Edward Jones Primary Center's enrollment has ticked down 43% since 2018, when it stood at 167 (now 96). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 24.0:1 today.
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