Ellen Ochoa Learning Center

Ellen Ochoa Learning Center is a primary school of roomy scale in Cudahy, California, run under Los Angeles Unified, works with 1,052 students in grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 126% larger than the state mean of about 465.

Los Angeles Unified comprises 784 schools with combined enrollment of 406,887 students; Ellen Ochoa Learning Center is among them.

In terms of who attends, Ellen Ochoa Learning Center records that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Ellen Ochoa Learning Center tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ellen Ochoa Learning Center tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 21.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.3%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Ellen Ochoa Learning Center is one.

Elizabeth Learning Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ellen Ochoa Learning Center. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ellen Ochoa Learning Center ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 32.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Ellen Ochoa Learning Center's enrollment has decreased 19% since 2018, when it stood at 1,303 (now 1,052). Class-load math has tightened: from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 in 2025.

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