Harvard Elementary

Harvard Elementary operates as an intimate elementary campus in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 249 students spanning grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 46% below typical.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Harvard Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Harvard Elementary logs that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 9% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, Harvard Elementary shows 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Harvard Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 22.8%; this one delivers 39.0%, a residual of +16.2 points.

In the area at large, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Harvard Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Alexandria Avenue Elementary, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Harvard Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.6%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Looking at the recent track record. Harvard Elementary's enrollment has declined 41% since 2018, when it stood at 421 (now 249). Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.1:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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