Hooper Avenue Elementary

Hooper Avenue Elementary is a mid-sized K-5 school in Los Angeles, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified. The school instructs 608 students in grades 1 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 31% larger than the state mean of about 465.

Hooper Avenue Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that teaches 406,887 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Hooper Avenue Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (93%). The remainder is composed of 3% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Hooper Avenue Elementary has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hooper Avenue Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.6%, the actual is 16.9%, a residual of -3.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) reports that median household income runs about $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Hooper Avenue Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Hooper Avenue Primary Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hooper Avenue Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hooper Avenue Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 26.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Hooper Avenue Elementary's enrollment has decreased 35% since 2018, when it stood at 937 (now 608). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 23.4:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 today.

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