Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary

Set in Los Angeles, California, Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary is a medium-sized elementary campus, part of Los Angeles Unified. It teaches 527 students across grades K through 6.

Across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students total), Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary records that 77% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 18% Black, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary logs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 21.7%; this one delivers 28.3%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Judith F. Baca Arts Academy, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary. On composite proficiency, Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 31.6%.

Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 28%: 733 students in 2018 compared to 527 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Ninety-Sixth Street Elementary typically covers school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.