Fishburn Avenue Elementary

Fishburn Avenue Elementary operates as a mid-sized elementary campus in Maywood, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 430 students spanning grades K through 5.

Across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students total), Fishburn Avenue Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Fishburn Avenue Elementary shows that nearly all students (97%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 2% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Fishburn Avenue Elementary records 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Fishburn Avenue Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.2%, the actual is 28.6%, a residual of +5.4 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Fishburn Avenue Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is KIPP Pueblo Unido, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fishburn Avenue Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fishburn Avenue Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 34.0%.

Fishburn Avenue Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 17%: 516 students in 2018 compared to 430 in 2025.

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