Hancock Park Elementary

As a mid-tier elementary school in Los Angeles, California, Hancock Park Elementary enrolls 589 students from grades K through 5, operated by Los Angeles Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Hancock Park Elementary sits 27% larger than that benchmark.

Los Angeles Unified comprises 784 schools with combined enrollment of 406,887 students; Hancock Park Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hancock Park Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Asian (33%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 32% White, 18% Hispanic, 9% Black, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 15% Asian, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Asian than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hancock Park Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 46.4%; actual is 65.2%, +18.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, 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 roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Hancock Park Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Whitman Continuation, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hancock Park Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 50.3%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 19%: 726 students in 2018 compared to 589 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 43% to 33% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 24.2:1 in 2018 to 23.1:1 today.

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