Hillcrest Drive Elementary

Located at 4041 Hillcrest Dr., in Los Angeles, California, Hillcrest Drive Elementary is a moderately sized elementary-level community that hosts 486 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Los Angeles Unified.

Hillcrest Drive Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that works with 406,887 students overall.

On demographics, Hillcrest Drive Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 41% Black, 8% multiracial. Compared to Los Angeles County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Hillcrest Drive Elementary has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 97% of students at Hillcrest Drive Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Hillcrest Drive Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.5%, the actual is 19.4%, a residual of -2.1 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate 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. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Hillcrest Drive Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Stella Middle Charter Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hillcrest Drive Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 27.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Hillcrest Drive Elementary's enrollment has fell 19% since 2018, when it stood at 600 (now 486). Over the same period, the Black share fell from 47% to 41%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 in 2025.

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