MacArthur Park Elem Sch for the Visual and Perf Arts

MacArthur Park Elem Sch for the Visual and Perf Arts, a low-enrollment primary school in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified, serves 338 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so MacArthur Park Elem Sch for the Visual and Perf Arts sits 27% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students total), MacArthur Park Elem Sch for the Visual and Perf Arts accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, MacArthur Park Elem Sch for the Visual and Perf Arts shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%); the rest comes out to 3% Black, 3% Asian, 2% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, MacArthur Park Elem Sch for the Visual and Perf Arts has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 98% of students at MacArthur Park Elem Sch for the Visual and Perf Arts qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, MacArthur Park Elem Sch for the Visual and Perf Arts tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 21.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 27.1%.

Across the wider county, Los Angeles County reports that median household earnings sit near $90,112, 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), MacArthur Park Elem Sch for the Visual and Perf Arts is one campus in the mix.

Equitas Academy 4 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MacArthur Park Elem Sch for the Visual and Perf Arts comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 42.5%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. MacArthur Park Elem Sch for the Visual and Perf Arts's enrollment has declined 37% since 2018, when it stood at 540 (now 338). Class-load math has tightened: from 22.5:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.