Huntington Park Elementary

Located at 6055 Corona Ave., in Huntington Park, California, Huntington Park Elementary is an intimate elementary-level community that educates 261 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Los Angeles Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 44% below the state mean of about 465.

Huntington Park Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that instructs 406,887 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Huntington Park Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%). That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Huntington Park Elementary has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.4:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Huntington Park Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.7%, the actual is 32.8%, a residual of +10.2 points.

In the area at large, Los Angeles County reports that median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Huntington Park Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Aspire Antonio Maria Lugo Academy, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Huntington Park Elementary. On composite proficiency, Huntington Park Elementary comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 31.0%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Huntington Park Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 37% since 2018, when it stood at 415 (now 261). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.1:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 today.

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