Lake Los Angeles Elementary

Lake Los Angeles Elementary is a K-5 school of reasonably sized scale in Palmdale, California, run under Keppel Union Elementary, instructing 533 students in grades K through 8.

Keppel Union Elementary runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,784 students. Lake Los Angeles Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Lake Los Angeles Elementary records that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school records 5% White, 3% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 64% of students at Lake Los Angeles Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Lake Los Angeles Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 41.5%; actual is 16.2%, a gap of -25.3 points.

In the broader community, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Lake Los Angeles Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Vista San Gabriel Elementary, around 2.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Lake Los Angeles Elementary. On composite proficiency, Lake Los Angeles Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 19.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Looking at the recent track record. Lake Los Angeles Elementary's enrollment has climbed 4% since 2018, when it stood at 513 (now 533). Hispanic enrollment moved from 74% to 91% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 25.0:1 in 2018 to 23.2:1 in 2025.

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