Lo-Inyo Elementary

Lo-Inyo Elementary is a modestly sized K-5 school in Lone Pine, California, overseen by Lone Pine Unified. The school instructs 197 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Lo-Inyo Elementary sits 58% below that benchmark.

Lone Pine Unified runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 283 students. Lo-Inyo Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lo-Inyo Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 57% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 20% White, 13% multiracial, 8% Native American, 2% Asian. By comparison, Inyo County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lo-Inyo Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.4%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Inyo County indicate median household income runs about $73,991, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lo-Inyo Elementary is one of 23 public schools in Inyo County (combined enrollment of about 2,539 students).

Nearest neighbor: Lone Pine High, around 0.5 miles off.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 6%: 209 students in 2018 compared to 197 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 25% to 20% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.7:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

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