Mt. Washington Elementary

Mt. Washington Elementary operates as a medium-sized elementary campus in Los Angeles, California, part of Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 430 students spanning grades K through 6.

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

Looking at the student body, Mt. Washington Elementary logs that 41% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 27% multiracial, 22% Hispanic, 10% Asian. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 31% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.9:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 18% of students at Mt. Washington 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 below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mt. Washington Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.7%, the actual is 71.9%, a residual of +3.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household income runs about $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Mt. Washington Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Aldama Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mt. Washington Elementary at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 35.3%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Mt. Washington Elementary's enrollment has increased 7% since 2018, when it stood at 402 (now 430). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 51% to 41%.

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