Murchison Street Elementary

Murchison Street Elementary operates as a low-enrollment K-5 school in Los Angeles, California, run under Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 312 students spanning grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 33% leaner than the state mean of about 465.

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

On demographics, Murchison Street Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%). The remainder breaks down as 3% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Murchison Street Elementary has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. 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, Murchison Street 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 21.9%; Murchison Street Elementary posts 37.3%, +15.4 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that median household earnings sit near $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. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Murchison Street Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Murchison Street Elementary. On composite proficiency, Murchison Street Elementary comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 36.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Murchison Street Elementary's enrollment has declined 32% since 2018, when it stood at 462 (now 312). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.