Lockwood Avenue Elementary

As a cozy elementary-level community in Los Angeles, California, Lockwood Avenue Elementary enrolls 285 students from grades K through 6, part of Los Angeles Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Lockwood Avenue Elementary sits 39% below that benchmark.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Lockwood Avenue Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Lockwood Avenue Elementary records that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder consists of 7% Asian, 5% White, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Lockwood Avenue Elementary records 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Lockwood Avenue Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 96% of students at Lockwood Avenue Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lockwood Avenue Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.0%, the actual is 29.3%, a residual of +7.3 points.

In the area at large, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 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), Lockwood Avenue Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Lexington Avenue Primary Center, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lockwood Avenue Elementary at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 42.4%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 36%: 447 students in 2018 compared to 285 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 in 2025.

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