Lafayette Elementary

Lafayette Elementary is one of the roomy elementary campuss in Long Beach, California, run under Long Beach Unified, with 827 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Lafayette Elementary sits 78% above that benchmark.

Across the 82 schools in Long Beach Unified (62,255 students total), Lafayette Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Lafayette Elementary lists that 79% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 12% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 27.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Lafayette Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 81% of students at Lafayette Elementary qualify 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.

After controlling for student poverty, Lafayette Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.3%, the actual is 36.6%, a residual of +5.3 points.

Around the school, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), Lafayette Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Robinson Academy, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lafayette Elementary comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 34.1%.

Lafayette Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lafayette Elementary has ticked down 12%, going from 939 students in 2018 to 827 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 28.9:1 in 2018 to 27.1:1 in 2025.

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