Fifty-Fourth Street Elementary

Set in Los Angeles, California, Fifty-Fourth Street Elementary is a modestly sized elementary school, run under Los Angeles Unified. It caters to 209 students across grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Fifty-Fourth Street Elementary sits 55% leaner than that benchmark.

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

Demographically, Fifty-Fourth Street Elementary records that 51% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 27% Hispanic, 22% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 8% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Fifty-Fourth Street Elementary reports 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Fifty-Fourth Street Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 23.1%; Fifty-Fourth Street Elementary posts 45.6%, +22.6 points above that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Fifty-Fourth Street Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is ICEF View Park Preparatory High, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fifty-Fourth Street Elementary.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fifty-Fourth Street Elementary has shrank 35%, going from 320 students in 2018 to 209 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 78% to 51% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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