Eshelman Avenue Elementary

Eshelman Avenue Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Lomita, California, part of Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 449 students spanning grades K through 5.

Eshelman Avenue Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that serves 406,887 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Eshelman Avenue Elementary records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 70%; the rest looks like 12% Black, 8% White, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Eshelman Avenue Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.8%, the actual is 41.9%, a residual of +14.2 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Eshelman Avenue 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 Alexander Fleming Middle, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Eshelman Avenue Elementary comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 37.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Eshelman Avenue Elementary has shrank 20%, going from 563 students in 2018 to 449 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 64% to 70%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.5:1 in 2018 to 22.4:1 today.

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