Lenicia B. Weemes Elementary

Set in Los Angeles, California, Lenicia B. Weemes Elementary is an intimate K-5 school, part of Los Angeles Unified. It hosts 394 students across grades K through 5.

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

Looking at the student body, Lenicia B. Weemes Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 21% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Lenicia B. Weemes Elementary has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Lenicia B. Weemes Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Lenicia B. Weemes Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.5%, the actual is 25.8%, a residual of +3.3 points.

In the area at large, Los Angeles County reports that median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Lenicia B. Weemes Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is STEM Preparatory Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lenicia B. Weemes Elementary comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.8%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 32%: 582 students in 2018 compared to 394 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 today.

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