Middleton Street Elementary

Located at 6537 Malabar St., in Huntington Park, California, Middleton Street Elementary is a moderately sized elementary campus that hosts 601 students (grades 1 through 6), one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. That puts it 29% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Middleton Street Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Middleton Street Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (99%). That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Middleton Street Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 99% of students at Middleton Street Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Middleton Street Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 20.4%; this one delivers 36.3%, a residual of +15.9 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records that median household income runs about $90,112, 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 Middleton Street Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Middleton Primary Center, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Middleton Street Elementary comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Middleton Street Elementary has edged down 38%, going from 963 students in 2018 to 601 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 today.

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