Ninety-Third Street Elementary

Ninety-Third Street Elementary is one of the well-populated K-5 schools in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified, with 772 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Ninety-Third Street Elementary sits 66% above that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, Ninety-Third Street Elementary records that nearly all students (81%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 13% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Ninety-Third Street Elementary lists 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.8:1. 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, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Ninety-Third Street Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.4%, the actual is 25.1%, a residual of +3.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, Los Angeles County reports that median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Ninety-Third Street Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mervyn M. Dymally High, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Ninety-Third Street Elementary comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 27.4%.

Ninety-Third Street Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 28%: 1,065 students in 2018 compared to 772 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 18% to 13%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.2:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.