Hawaiian Elementary

As a small elementary-level community in Hawaiian Gardens, California, Hawaiian Elementary works with 298 students from grades K through 6, operated by ABC Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Hawaiian Elementary sits 36% below that benchmark.

Hawaiian Elementary is one of 30 schools operated by ABC Unified, a district that works with 17,570 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Hawaiian Elementary reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%. Beyond that, the school logs 31% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Hawaiian Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.7%; this one delivers 34.1%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) reports that median household earnings sit near $90,112, 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), Hawaiian Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Lexington Junior High, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Hawaiian Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.1%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Hawaiian Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 19% since 2018, when it stood at 368 (now 298). The Hispanic share of enrollment declined from 91% to 65% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 26.3:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 today.

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