Ricardo Lizarraga Elementary

Ricardo Lizarraga Elementary operates as a modestly sized elementary school in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 368 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 21% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Ricardo Lizarraga Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Ricardo Lizarraga Elementary shows that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Ricardo Lizarraga Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Ricardo Lizarraga Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 21.1%; this one delivers 17.7%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that 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%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Ricardo Lizarraga Elementary is one.

Gabriella Charter 2 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Ricardo Lizarraga Elementary's enrollment has declined 43% since 2018, when it stood at 641 (now 368). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 today.

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