Forty-Ninth Street Elementary

Forty-Ninth Street Elementary is an elementary campus of mid-sized scale in Los Angeles, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified, enrolling 491 students in grades K through 5.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Forty-Ninth Street Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Forty-Ninth Street Elementary records that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder is composed of 8% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Forty-Ninth Street Elementary lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 97% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Forty-Ninth Street Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 21.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 20.4%.

In the area at large, Los Angeles County reports that median household income runs about $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 Forty-Ninth Street Elementary is one.

George Washington Carver Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Forty-Ninth Street Elementary at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 21.7%.

Forty-Ninth Street Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 35%: 760 students in 2018 compared to 491 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 24.5:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 in 2025.

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