Dr. Owen Lloyd Knox Elementary

As a medium-sized elementary school in Los Angeles, California, Dr. Owen Lloyd Knox Elementary enrolls 669 students from grades K through 6, part of Los Angeles Unified. That puts it 44% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Los Angeles Unified comprises 784 schools with combined enrollment of 406,887 students; Dr. Owen Lloyd Knox Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Dr. Owen Lloyd Knox Elementary reports that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 14% Black, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Dr. Owen Lloyd Knox Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Dr. Owen Lloyd Knox Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.4%, the actual is 32.4%, a residual of +11.0 points.

In the broader 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Dr. Owen Lloyd Knox Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Watts Learning Center Charter Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Dr. Owen Lloyd Knox Elementary comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 24.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Dr. Owen Lloyd Knox Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 14% since 2018, when it stood at 776 (now 669). Black enrollment moved from 20% to 14% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 in 2025.

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