Jersey Avenue Elementary

Set in Santa Fe Springs, California, Jersey Avenue Elementary is a small primary school, part of Little Lake City Elementary. It serves 260 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 44% below the state mean of about 465.

Little Lake City Elementary comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 3,535 students; Jersey Avenue Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Jersey Avenue Elementary records that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 2% White, 2% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Jersey Avenue Elementary records 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 75% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Jersey Avenue Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 35.4%; this one delivers 51.6%, a residual of +16.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,112, 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 Jersey Avenue Elementary is one.

Rancho Santa Gertrudes Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jersey Avenue Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jersey Avenue Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 43.8%.

Jersey Avenue Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Jersey Avenue Elementary's enrollment has fell 46% since 2018, when it stood at 479 (now 260). Class-load math has pulled in: from 25.1:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 in 2025.

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