Frank del Olmo Elementary

Frank del Olmo Elementary is a K-5 school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified, serveing 456 students in grades K through 5.

Frank del Olmo Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that educates 406,887 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Frank del Olmo Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%). Beyond that, the school records 7% Asian. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, Frank del Olmo Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.2%, the actual is 32.8%, a residual of +11.6 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Frank del Olmo Elementary is one.

Virgil Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 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 Frank del Olmo Elementary at 4th of 4; the average score across the group is 45.9%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Frank del Olmo Elementary's enrollment has decreased 43% since 2018, when it stood at 801 (now 456). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 21.7:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.