Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary

Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary is a moderately sized elementary school in Los Angeles, California, overseen by Los Angeles Unified. The school enrolls 399 students in grades K through 5.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 69%. The remainder breaks down as 23% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 99% 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 north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.2%, the actual is 14.6%, a residual of -5.7 points.

Across the wider county, Los Angeles County reports that median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

KIPP Philosophers 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 Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary. On composite proficiency, Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 25.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary's enrollment has fell 27% since 2018, when it stood at 547 (now 399). The Black share of enrollment fell from 28% to 23% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.8:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.