La Salle Avenue Elementary

Located at 8715 La Salle Ave., in Los Angeles, California, La Salle Avenue Elementary is an intimate primary school that enrolls 330 students (grades K through 5), part of Los Angeles Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 29% leaner than typical.

Los Angeles Unified comprises 784 schools with combined enrollment of 406,887 students; La Salle Avenue Elementary is among them.

Demographically, La Salle Avenue Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 40% Black, 5% multiracial.

On the resource side, On paper, La Salle Avenue Elementary has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, La Salle Avenue Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.4%, the actual is 25.4%, a residual of +3.0 points.

In the broader community, census data for Los Angeles County shows 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%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), La Salle Avenue Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: TEACH Prep Mildred S. Cunningham & Edith H. Morris Elem, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around La Salle Avenue Elementary.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Looking at the recent track record. La Salle Avenue Elementary's enrollment has shrank 22% since 2018, when it stood at 421 (now 330). Black enrollment moved from 60% to 40% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.