El Dorado Elementary

El Dorado Elementary, a heavily attended K-5 school in Lancaster, California, part of Lancaster Elementary, serves 766 students, covering grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 65% above typical.

El Dorado Elementary is one of 23 schools operated by Lancaster Elementary, a district that caters to 13,765 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, El Dorado Elementary shows that 56% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 34% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% White.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, El Dorado Elementary has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 26.4:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 95% of students at El Dorado Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, El Dorado Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.9%, the actual is 15.7%, a residual of -7.2 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 El Dorado Elementary is one.

Linda Verde Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, El Dorado Elementary comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 14.8%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at El Dorado Elementary has increased 16%, going from 663 students in 2018 to 766 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 11% to 3% across the same window.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.