Hudnall (Claude) Elementary

Hudnall (Claude) Elementary is an intimate primary school in Inglewood, California, operated by Inglewood Unified. The school works with 332 students in grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 29% below typical.

Inglewood Unified comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 6,727 students; Hudnall (Claude) Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Hudnall (Claude) Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 72% of enrollment. Other groups include 23% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Hudnall (Claude) Elementary reports 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Hudnall (Claude) Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.3%, the actual is 18.2%, a residual of -5.1 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Hudnall (Claude) Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Inglewood High, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hudnall (Claude) Elementary. On composite proficiency, Hudnall (Claude) Elementary comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 25.0%.

Hudnall (Claude) Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 13%: 382 students in 2018 compared to 332 in 2025.

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