Griffin Avenue Elementary

Griffin Avenue Elementary is a cozy K-5 school in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. The school hosts 287 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Griffin Avenue Elementary sits 38% below that benchmark.

Griffin Avenue Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that enrolls 406,887 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Griffin Avenue Elementary records that nearly all students (87%) are Hispanic; the rest looks like 10% Asian. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Griffin Avenue Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Griffin Avenue Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.7%; this one delivers 34.6%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household income runs about $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 Griffin Avenue Elementary is one.

Gates Street Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Griffin Avenue Elementary at 3rd of 4; the average score across the group is 43.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Griffin Avenue Elementary's enrollment has decreased 35% since 2018, when it stood at 443 (now 287). Over the same period, the Asian share contracted from 22% to 10%. Class-load math has fell: from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 in 2025.

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