Foshay Learning Center

Foshay Learning Center is one of the high-enrollment combined-grade schools in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified, with 1,530 students on its rolls from grades K through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 602 students each, so Foshay Learning Center sits 154% above that benchmark.

Los Angeles Unified comprises 784 schools with combined enrollment of 406,887 students; Foshay Learning Center is among them.

On demographics, Foshay Learning Center reports that nearly all students (85%) are Hispanic; the rest looks like 13% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.6:1, putting Foshay Learning Center higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Foshay Learning Center sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.0%; this one delivers 34.0%.

Around the school, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Foshay Learning Center is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Birdielee V. Bright Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Foshay Learning Center ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 25.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Foshay Learning Center has shrank 19%, going from 1,886 students in 2018 to 1,530 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 24.8:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 in 2025.

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