One Hundred Eighteenth Street Elementary

Located at 144 East 118th St., in Los Angeles, California, One Hundred Eighteenth Street Elementary is a medium-sized elementary-level community that serves 465 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, One Hundred Eighteenth Street Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, One Hundred Eighteenth Street Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 78% of enrollment; the rest consists of 18% 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, One Hundred Eighteenth Street Elementary records 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.4:1. 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, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), One Hundred Eighteenth Street Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.9%; this one delivers 24.4%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. One Hundred Eighteenth Street Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

One Hundred Twenty-Second Street Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, One Hundred Eighteenth Street Elementary comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.6%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. One Hundred Eighteenth Street Elementary's enrollment has contracted 27% since 2018, when it stood at 635 (now 465). Over the same period, the Black share fell from 23% to 18%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 22.7:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 in 2025.

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