Harbor City Elementary

Harbor City Elementary is an elementary school of mid-tier scale in Harbor City, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified, enrolling 420 students in grades K through 5.

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

On the student-mix side, Harbor City Elementary lists that nearly all students (83%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 7% multiracial, 5% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 92% of students are eligible 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 somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Harbor City Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.5%; this one delivers 36.4%.

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. Harbor City Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Alexander Fleming Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Harbor City Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 38.4%.

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

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Harbor City Elementary has declined 30%, going from 603 students in 2018 to 420 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 10% to 5% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 22.3:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 in 2025.

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