Richland Avenue Elementary

As a close-knit elementary-level community in Los Angeles, California, Richland Avenue Elementary teaches 280 students from grades K through 7, part of Los Angeles Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Richland Avenue Elementary sits 40% leaner than that benchmark.

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

Demographically, Richland Avenue Elementary shows that White students make up the majority at 65%. The remainder looks like 13% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 9% Black, 4% Asian. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 31% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Richland Avenue Elementary has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.5:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 18% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Richland Avenue Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.9%, the actual is 71.0%, a residual of +2.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), Richland Avenue Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Citizens of the World Charter School Mar Vista is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Richland Avenue Elementary at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 62.0%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Richland Avenue Elementary has stayed largely flat, going from 286 students in 2018 to 280 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 44% to 10%. Class-load math has widened: from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 in 2025.

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