Gerald A. Lawson Acad of the Arts Math and Sci

Gerald A. Lawson Acad of the Arts Math and Sci is an average-sized elementary-level community in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. The school caters to 480 students in grades K through 6.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Gerald A. Lawson Acad of the Arts Math and Sci is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Gerald A. Lawson Acad of the Arts Math and Sci logs that nearly all students (84%) are Hispanic; the rest comes out to 12% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Gerald A. Lawson Acad of the Arts Math and Sci records 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Gerald A. Lawson Acad of the Arts Math and Sci tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Gerald A. Lawson Acad of the Arts Math and Sci performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.8%, the actual is 16.1%, a residual of -4.7 points.

In the broader community, Los Angeles County reports that median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Gerald A. Lawson Acad of the Arts Math and Sci is one campus in the mix.

Gil Garcetti Learning Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Gerald A. Lawson Acad of the Arts Math and Sci comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 25.0%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 23%: 624 students in 2018 compared to 480 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 18% to 12% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.0:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 today.

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