Ninety-Second Street Elementary

Ninety-Second Street Elementary is one of the mid-tier K-5 schools in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified, with 568 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Ninety-Second Street Elementary sits 22% bigger than that benchmark.

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

Demographically, Ninety-Second Street Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%). Beyond that, the school records 8% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Ninety-Second Street Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 99% of students at Ninety-Second Street Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Ninety-Second 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 20.8%; Ninety-Second Street Elementary posts 38.5%, +17.7 points above that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Ninety-Second Street Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Westbrook Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ninety-Second Street Elementary comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 21.6%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Ninety-Second Street Elementary's enrollment has shrank 37% since 2018, when it stood at 899 (now 568). Class-load math has narrowed: from 25.0:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.