Hooper Avenue Primary Center

As a tiny elementary school in Los Angeles, California, Hooper Avenue Primary Center serves 142 students from grade K, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Hooper Avenue Primary Center sits 69% smaller than that benchmark.

Los Angeles Unified comprises 784 schools with combined enrollment of 406,887 students; Hooper Avenue Primary Center is among them.

In terms of who attends, Hooper Avenue Primary Center logs that nearly all students (93%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 4% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Hooper Avenue Primary Center has 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 98% of students are eligible 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.

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 the poverty rate sits near 10%. Hooper Avenue Primary Center is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Hooper Avenue Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 49%: 281 students in 2018 compared to 142 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 23.4:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.