Fries Avenue Elementary

Fries Avenue Elementary is one of the cozy primary schools in Wilmington, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified, with 325 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 30% below the state mean of about 465.

Across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students total), Fries Avenue Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Fries Avenue Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (90%). Beyond that, the school lists 4% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 90% of students at Fries Avenue Elementary qualify 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 somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fries Avenue Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 21.4%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Fries Avenue Elementary is one.

Harry Bridges Span is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fries Avenue Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fries Avenue Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 33.7%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 38%: 524 students in 2018 compared to 325 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 today.

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