Euclid Avenue Elementary

Euclid Avenue Elementary operates as a mid-sized K-5 school in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 578 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 24% above the state mean of about 465.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Euclid Avenue Elementary reports that nearly all students (98%) are Hispanic. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Euclid Avenue Elementary has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Euclid Avenue Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.0%; this one delivers 31.7%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) shows that median household income runs about $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Euclid Avenue Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is KIPP Los Angeles College Preparatory, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Euclid Avenue Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 31.1%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Euclid Avenue Elementary's enrollment has shrank 23% since 2018, when it stood at 746 (now 578). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 94% to 98%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 today.

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