Grant Elementary

Located at 1530 North Wilton Pl., in Los Angeles, California, Grant Elementary is a low-enrollment primary school that serves 365 students (grades K through 6), one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Grant Elementary sits 22% smaller than that benchmark.

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

Demographically, Grant Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment; the rest reads as 16% White, 9% Black, 9% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Grant Elementary has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Grant Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 94% of students at Grant Elementary qualify 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 meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Grant Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.5%; this one delivers 36.5%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Grant Elementary is one.

STEM Academy at Bernstein High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 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 Grant Elementary at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 26.5%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 28%: 510 students in 2018 compared to 365 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share declined from 70% to 62%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.7:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.

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