El Rincon Elementary

El Rincon Elementary is an average-sized elementary campus in Culver City, California, operated by Culver City Unified. The school instructs 565 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 22% 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 Rincon Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, El Rincon Elementary records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (26%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 25% White, 19% Black, 18% multiracial, 11% Asian. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably less Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting El Rincon Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), El Rincon Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.9%, the actual is 62.8%, a residual of +2.9 points.

In the area at large, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. El Rincon Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is El Marino Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, El Rincon Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 53.0%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. El Rincon Elementary's enrollment has edged down 3% since 2018, when it stood at 582 (now 565). The White share of enrollment grew from 17% to 25% over that span.

Inside the community feed, members of the El Rincon Elementary community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.