Gates Street Elementary

As an average-sized elementary school in Los Angeles, California, Gates Street Elementary instructs 450 students from grades K through 5, operated by Los Angeles Unified.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Gates Street Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Gates Street Elementary reports that 81% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 15% Asian, 2% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, Gates Street Elementary lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Gates Street Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 23.6%; Gates Street Elementary posts 41.1%, +17.5 points above that line.

Around the school, census data for Los Angeles County shows 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 Gates Street Elementary is one.

Abraham Lincoln Senior High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Gates Street Elementary. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Gates Street Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 50.8%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 32%: 658 students in 2018 compared to 450 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share ticked down from 19% to 15%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 in 2025.

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