Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte Elementary

Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte Elementary is one of the moderately sized primary schools in Los Angeles, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified, with 449 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Los Angeles Unified comprises 784 schools with combined enrollment of 406,887 students; Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte Elementary logs that nearly all students (88%) are Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 10% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 98% of students at Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.2%, the actual is 17.5%, a residual of -3.8 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs 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), Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Dr. James Edward Jones Primary Center, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte Elementary at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 27.5%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 14%: 523 students in 2018 compared to 449 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.8:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, members of the Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.