La Ballona Elementary

Located at 10915 Washington Blvd., in Culver City, California, La Ballona Elementary is an average-sized K-5 school that works with 531 students (grades K through 5), operated by Culver City Unified.

Culver City Unified runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 6,581 students. La Ballona Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, La Ballona Elementary shows that 64% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 15% White, 8% multiracial, 6% Black, 6% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, La Ballona Elementary lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), La Ballona Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.4%, the actual is 46.6%, a residual of -0.8 points.

In the broader community, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. La Ballona Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Charnock Road Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, La Ballona Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.4%.

La Ballona Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 11%: 598 students in 2018 compared to 531 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.9:1 in 2018 to 21.2:1 today.

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