Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary

Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary is a mid-tier K-5 school in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. The school teaches 487 students in grades K through 6.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 21% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary logs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Ninety-Ninth 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 21.6%; this one delivers 38.8%, a residual of +17.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

KIPP Ignite Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 26.6%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 15%: 571 students in 2018 compared to 487 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 23.8:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 in 2025.

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