Farmdale Elementary

As a tight-knit primary school in Los Angeles, California, Farmdale Elementary hosts 324 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 30% below typical.

Los Angeles Unified comprises 784 schools with combined enrollment of 406,887 students; Farmdale Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Farmdale Elementary records that nearly all students (90%) are Hispanic; the rest looks like 4% White, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at school resources, Farmdale Elementary lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. 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. That share is higher than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Farmdale Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 27.5%; this one delivers 45.6%, a residual of +18.2 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Farmdale Elementary is one.

El Sereno Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Farmdale Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.9%.

Farmdale Elementary operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 32%: 479 students in 2018 compared to 324 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.