Hillside Elementary

Hillside Elementary is an elementary-level community of rural-scale scale in Los Angeles, California, part of Los Angeles Unified, teacheing 92 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 80% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hillside Elementary logs that nearly all students (89%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 91% of students at Hillside Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Hillside Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.6%.

In the broader community, Los Angeles County reports that median household earnings sit near $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Hillside Elementary is one.

Los Angeles Leadership Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hillside Elementary. On composite proficiency, Hillside Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 41.0%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hillside Elementary has decreased 38%, going from 149 students in 2018 to 92 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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