Malabar Street Elementary

Malabar Street Elementary is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in Los Angeles, California, overseen by Los Angeles Unified, hosting 418 students in grades K through 6.

Malabar Street Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that hosts 406,887 students overall.

Demographically, Malabar Street Elementary lists that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Malabar Street Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 21.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.5%.

In the area at large, the surrounding 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 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), Malabar Street Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Evergreen Avenue Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Malabar Street Elementary comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 29.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Malabar Street Elementary's enrollment has declined 34% since 2018, when it stood at 635 (now 418). Class-load math has tightened: from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Malabar Street Elementary community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.