Lorena Street Elementary

Lorena Street Elementary is one of the intimate elementary campuss in Los Angeles, California, part of Los Angeles Unified, with 383 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lorena Street Elementary records that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, Lorena Street Elementary records 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lorena Street Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.1%, the actual is 20.5%, a residual of +0.4 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Lorena Street Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Oscar De La Hoya Animo Charter High, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lorena Street Elementary comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 31.3%.

Lorena Street Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 15%: 450 students in 2018 compared to 383 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 22.5:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 today.

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