Huntington Drive Elementary

Huntington Drive Elementary is a tight-knit K-5 school in Los Angeles, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified. The school enrolls 282 students in grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 39% leaner than the state mean of about 465.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Huntington Drive Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Huntington Drive Elementary logs that nearly all students (92%) are Hispanic; the rest consists of 4% Black, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.6:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Huntington Drive Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.1%, the actual is 23.6%, a residual of -0.5 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Huntington Drive Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Glen Alta Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Huntington Drive Elementary. On composite proficiency, Huntington Drive Elementary comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 44.0%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 21%: 359 students in 2018 compared to 282 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the Huntington Drive Elementary community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.