Mar Vista Elementary

Mar Vista Elementary, a mid-sized elementary-level community in Los Angeles, California, part of Los Angeles Unified, enrolls 590 students, covering grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 27% bigger than typical.

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

On demographics, Mar Vista Elementary shows that the most-represented group is White (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 27% multiracial, 16% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 31% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 15% of students at Mar Vista Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mar Vista Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 70.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 78.3%.

Around the school, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Mar Vista Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Charnock Road Elementary, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mar Vista Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 55.1%.

Mar Vista Elementary operates from an urban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Mar Vista Elementary's enrollment has expanded 3% since 2018, when it stood at 572 (now 590). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 51% to 43%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.8:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 in 2025.

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