Hope Street Elementary

Hope Street Elementary is an elementary-level community of compact scale in Huntington Park, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified, instructing 338 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 27% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

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

On the student-mix side, Hope Street Elementary logs that nearly all students (97%) are Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 93% of students at Hope Street 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 noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Hope Street Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 24.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.8%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put 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 Hope Street Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is State Street Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hope Street Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.4%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hope Street Elementary has declined 35%, going from 524 students in 2018 to 338 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 today.

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