John Adams Elementary

John Adams Elementary is a modestly sized primary school in Torrance, California, operated by Torrance Unified. The school caters to 343 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 26% below the state mean of about 465.

Torrance Unified comprises 31 schools with combined enrollment of 21,890 students; John Adams Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, John Adams Elementary lists that 58% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 16% White, 15% Asian, 7% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 49% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, John Adams Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.3%; this one delivers 59.0%.

In the area at large, census data for Los Angeles County shows 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%. John Adams Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Howard Wood Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, John Adams Elementary comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 45.8%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at John Adams Elementary has fell 21%, going from 435 students in 2018 to 343 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 42% to 58% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 25.6:1 in 2018 to 24.5:1 today.

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