Michelle Obama Elementary

Michelle Obama Elementary is a K-5 school of reasonably sized scale in Panorama City, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified, caters to 570 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Michelle Obama Elementary sits 23% bigger than that benchmark.

Michelle Obama Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that educates 406,887 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Michelle Obama Elementary reports that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school records 5% Asian, 2% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Michelle Obama Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 21.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 21.1%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put 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), Michelle Obama Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Cal Burke High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Michelle Obama Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 28.3%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 28%: 788 students in 2018 compared to 570 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.2:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 today.

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