Menlo Avenue Elementary

Set in Los Angeles, California, Menlo Avenue Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school, overseen by Los Angeles Unified. It enrolls 531 students across grades K through 8.

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

On demographics, Menlo Avenue Elementary shows that nearly all students (87%) are Hispanic. The remainder looks like 9% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Menlo Avenue Elementary has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 99% of students at Menlo Avenue Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. 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, Menlo Avenue Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.6%; this one delivers 32.4%.

In the broader community, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Menlo Avenue Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Manual Arts Senior High, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Menlo Avenue Elementary. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Menlo Avenue Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 23.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Menlo Avenue Elementary has stayed largely flat, going from 540 students in 2018 to 531 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 13% to 9% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 22.5:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 in 2025.

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