Leapwood Avenue Elementary

Leapwood Avenue Elementary operates as a low-enrollment K-5 school in Carson, California, run under Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 222 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 52% leaner than the state mean of about 465.

Leapwood Avenue Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that caters to 406,887 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Leapwood Avenue Elementary shows that 67% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 17% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% Asian, 2% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 8% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Leapwood Avenue Elementary has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.5:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Leapwood Avenue Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.6%, the actual is 30.7%, a residual of -5.9 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Leapwood Avenue Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Towne Avenue Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Leapwood Avenue Elementary. On composite proficiency, Leapwood Avenue Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.0%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Leapwood Avenue Elementary has decreased 22%, going from 284 students in 2018 to 222 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 76% to 67%.

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