Hawaiian Avenue Elementary

Hawaiian Avenue Elementary operates as a medium-sized elementary school in Wilmington, California, part of Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 455 students spanning grades K through 5.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Hawaiian Avenue Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Hawaiian Avenue Elementary shows that nearly all students (94%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 4% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Hawaiian Avenue Elementary has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hawaiian Avenue Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.0%; this one delivers 23.7%.

Across the wider county, 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 the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Hawaiian Avenue Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: George De La Torre Jr. Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hawaiian Avenue Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hawaiian Avenue Elementary at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 42.9%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 26%: 612 students in 2018 compared to 455 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 today.

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