Marvin Elementary

Marvin Elementary operates as an average-sized K-5 school in Los Angeles, California, part of Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 503 students spanning grades K through 5.

Marvin Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that caters to 406,887 students overall.

Demographically, Marvin Elementary lists that nearly all students (85%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 9% Black, 3% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Marvin Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 25.1%; Marvin Elementary posts 47.1%, +21.9 points above that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Marvin Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: New Los Angeles Charter, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Marvin Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Marvin Elementary at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 35.0%.

Marvin Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Marvin Elementary has declined 37%, going from 795 students in 2018 to 503 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 23.4:1 in 2018 to 21.9:1 today.

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