Laurel Elementary

Set in Los Angeles, California, Laurel Elementary is an intimate primary school, operated by Los Angeles Unified. It caters to 262 students across grades K through 8. That puts it 44% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

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

On demographics, Laurel Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 35% White, 9% multiracial, 7% Black, 6% Asian.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) reports that median household income runs about $90,112, 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), Laurel Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Fairfax Senior High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Laurel Elementary's enrollment has decreased 8% since 2018, when it stood at 285 (now 262). The White share of enrollment grew from 26% to 35% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

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