Park Western Place Elementary

Park Western Place Elementary operates as a reasonably sized primary school in San Pedro, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 528 students spanning grades K through 5.

Los Angeles Unified comprises 784 schools with combined enrollment of 406,887 students; Park Western Place Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Park Western Place Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 59% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% Asian, 13% multiracial, 9% White, 5% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Park Western Place 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 39.8%; Park Western Place Elementary posts 63.1%, +23.3 points above that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Park Western Place Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Bandini Street Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Park Western Place Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 42.8%.

Park Western Place Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 25%: 702 students in 2018 compared to 528 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 in 2025.

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