El Marino Elementary

El Marino Elementary, an expansive K-5 school in Culver City, California, part of Culver City Unified, educates 795 students, covering grades K through 5. That puts it 71% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Culver City Unified runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 6,581 students. El Marino Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, El Marino Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 40%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 23% multiracial, 20% Asian, 15% White, 2% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly less Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, El Marino Elementary shows 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.1:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 19% of students at El Marino 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 south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, El Marino Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.4%, the actual is 70.3%, a residual of +1.9 points.

In the broader community, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. El Marino Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: El Rincon Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around El Marino Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), El Marino Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 56.8%.

El Marino Elementary operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at El Marino Elementary has fell 6%, going from 842 students in 2018 to 795 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 22% to 15% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 22.1:1 in 2025.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.