Emelita Street Elementary

Emelita Street Elementary is an elementary campus of low-enrollment scale in Encino, California, overseen by Los Angeles Unified, serveing 275 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 41% smaller than the state mean of about 465.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Emelita Street Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Emelita Street Elementary shows that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 24% White, 17% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Emelita Street Elementary has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.6:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Emelita Street Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.3%, the actual is 42.0%, a residual of +4.8 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 Emelita Street Elementary is one.

Academy for Enriched Sciences is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Emelita Street Elementary comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 51.6%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Emelita Street Elementary has contracted 34%, going from 415 students in 2018 to 275 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 31% to 24% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 21.8:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 today.

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