Gulf Avenue Elementary

Set in Wilmington, California, Gulf Avenue Elementary is an average-sized elementary-level community, part of Los Angeles Unified. It teaches 634 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 36% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

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

On demographics, Gulf Avenue Elementary logs that nearly all students (96%) are Hispanic. The remainder is composed of 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, On paper, Gulf Avenue Elementary has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Gulf Avenue Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Gulf Avenue Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.3%; this one delivers 34.4%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (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 the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Gulf Avenue Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Fries Avenue Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Gulf Avenue Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Gulf Avenue Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.5%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Gulf Avenue Elementary has fell 25%, going from 851 students in 2018 to 634 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.3:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 today.

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