Lemay Street Elementary

Lemay Street Elementary operates as a close-knit primary school in Lake Balboa, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 334 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Lemay Street Elementary sits 28% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students total), Lemay Street Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Lemay Street Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%). Beyond that, the school lists 6% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 92% of students at Lemay Street Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lemay Street Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 41.9%, a residual of +16.2 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records 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), Lemay Street Elementary is one campus in the mix.

William Mulholland Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lemay Street Elementary comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 33.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lemay Street Elementary has declined 18%, going from 407 students in 2018 to 334 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 11% to 6%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 today.

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