Lafayette Park Primary Center

Lafayette Park Primary Center is an elementary campus of rural-scale scale in Los Angeles, California, overseen by Los Angeles Unified, educateing 78 students in grade K. Enrollment runs roughly 83% below the state mean of about 465.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Lafayette Park Primary Center is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Lafayette Park Primary Center shows that nearly all students (92%) are Hispanic. The remainder looks like 4% Black, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Lafayette Park Primary Center lists 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.5:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Lafayette Park Primary Center is one campus in the mix.

Rise Kohyang Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lafayette Park Primary Center has fell 26%, going from 106 students in 2018 to 78 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 84% to 92%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 today.

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