Harrison Street Elementary

Harrison Street Elementary is a primary school of close-knit scale in Los Angeles, California, run under Los Angeles Unified, educateing 229 students in grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 51% smaller than typical.

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

In terms of who attends, Harrison Street Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 95% of students are eligible 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Harrison Street Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.8%; this one delivers 27.4%.

In the surrounding community, Los Angeles County reports that median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Harrison Street Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Evergreen Avenue Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harrison Street Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Harrison Street Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 37.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Harrison Street Elementary has shrank 51%, going from 466 students in 2018 to 229 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.