Ninth Street Elementary

Set in Los Angeles, California, Ninth Street Elementary is a compact primary school, part of Los Angeles Unified. It serves 302 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 35% leaner than typical.

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

Demographically, Ninth Street Elementary logs that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 12% multiracial, 9% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Ninth Street Elementary lists 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Ninth Street Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Ninth Street Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.5%, the actual is 17.7%, a residual of -2.8 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Ninth Street Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: PARA LOS NINOS MIDDLE, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ninth Street Elementary has contracted 11%, going from 340 students in 2018 to 302 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 85% to 76% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 25.2:1 in 2025.

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