Ford Boulevard Elementary

Ford Boulevard Elementary is one of the substantial elementary campuss in Los Angeles, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified, with 722 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 55% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Ford Boulevard Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Ford Boulevard Elementary reports that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Ford Boulevard Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.8%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household earnings sit near $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Ford Boulevard Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Arts in Action Community Middle, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ford Boulevard Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 24.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ford Boulevard Elementary has ticked down 32%, going from 1,068 students in 2018 to 722 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 23.0:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 today.

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