Gault Street Elementary

Gault Street Elementary is a small K-5 school in Lake Balboa, California, overseen by Los Angeles Unified. The school hosts 298 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 36% leaner than the state mean of about 465.

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

On the student-mix side, Gault Street Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (80%). Other groups include 10% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Gault Street Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.1%; this one delivers 40.1%.

In the area at large, 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 Gault Street Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: William Mulholland Middle, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Gault Street Elementary comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 31.3%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Gault Street Elementary's enrollment has shrank 13% since 2018, when it stood at 342 (now 298). Hispanic enrollment moved from 84% to 80% across the same window.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Gault Street Elementary community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.