Monte Vista Street Elementary

Monte Vista Street Elementary operates as a tiny primary school in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 181 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 61% leaner than the state mean of about 465.

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

Looking at the student body, Monte Vista Street Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (97%). By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Monte Vista Street Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 26.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 27.8%.

In the broader community, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household income runs about $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Monte Vista Street Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Richard Riordan Primary Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Monte Vista Street Elementary comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.1%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Monte Vista Street Elementary's enrollment has decreased 52% since 2018, when it stood at 377 (now 181). Hispanic enrollment moved from 89% to 97% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.2:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the Monte Vista Street Elementary community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.