Loreto Street Elementary

As a tight-knit K-5 school in Los Angeles, California, Loreto Street Elementary teaches 250 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Los Angeles Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 46% leaner than typical.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Loreto Street Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Loreto Street Elementary lists that nearly all students (94%) are Hispanic. The remainder looks like 2% Asian, 2% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Loreto Street Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 92% of students at Loreto 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%.

With demographic context factored in, Loreto Street Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.7%; this one delivers 25.8%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records that median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Loreto Street Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Florence Nightingale Middle, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Loreto Street Elementary comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 26%: 339 students in 2018 compared to 250 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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