Enrollment
316
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOS ANGELES UNIFIED·NCES 062271003306
Morris K. Hamasaki Elementary
4865 East First St., Los Angeles, CA 90022 · (323) 263-3869 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL316 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
21.1:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
288 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Morris K. Hamasaki Elementary→Griffith Middle
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CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
52.3%
CA avg 47.1% . +31.3pp since 2014
Math
52.0%
CA avg 35.6% . +42.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 31 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 42 points.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
52.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.2%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+26.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 25% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 27 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
316
-59 (-16%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
21.1:1
was 20.3:1
% White
1%
was 2%
% Hispanic
95%
was 94%
% Black
2%
was 3%
% Asian
1%
was 0%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About Morris K. Hamasaki Elementary
Set in Los Angeles, California, Morris K. Hamasaki Elementary is a modestly sized elementary-level community, part of Los Angeles Unified. It hosts 316 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Morris K. Hamasaki Elementary sits 32% leaner than that benchmark.
Morris K. Hamasaki Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that works with 406,887 students overall.
Demographically, Morris K. Hamasaki Elementary reports that nearly all students (95%) are Hispanic. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, The school employs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Morris K. Hamasaki Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 91% of students at Morris K. Hamasaki Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Morris K. Hamasaki 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 25.2%; Morris K. Hamasaki Elementary posts 52.0%, +26.8 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, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Morris K. Hamasaki Elementary is one.
Nearest neighbor: KIPP Iluminar Academy, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
Morris K. Hamasaki Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Morris K. Hamasaki Elementary has edged down 16%, going from 375 students in 2018 to 316 in 2025.
Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
Los Angeles County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
9,808,667
Census ACS
Median income
$90,112
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
2,244
1,265,907 students
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Frequently asked questions
About Morris K. Hamasaki ElementaryHow large is Morris K. Hamasaki Elementary?
Morris K. Hamasaki Elementary enrolls approximately 316 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Morris K. Hamasaki Elementary serve?
Morris K. Hamasaki Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Morris K. Hamasaki Elementary?
Approximately 21.1:1 students per teacher at Morris K. Hamasaki Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Morris K. Hamasaki Elementary?
At Morris K. Hamasaki Elementary, the student body is approximately 1% White, 95% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Morris K. Hamasaki Elementary?
Morris K. Hamasaki Elementary is overseen by Los Angeles Unified in Los Angeles County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.