Esperanza Elementary

Set in Los Angeles, California, Esperanza Elementary is a medium-sized elementary-level community, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. It serves 577 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 24% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Esperanza Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Esperanza Elementary records that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 4% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Esperanza Elementary reports 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.4:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Esperanza Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 21.1%; this one delivers 27.9%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household earnings sit near $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Esperanza Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Camino Nuevo Charter Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Esperanza Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Esperanza Elementary at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 21.9%.

Esperanza Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Esperanza Elementary has decreased 29%, going from 812 students in 2018 to 577 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.2:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 in 2025.

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