Ritter Elementary

Ritter Elementary is one of the small elementary schools in Los Angeles, California, run under Los Angeles Unified, with 307 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 34% smaller than typical.

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

In terms of who attends, Ritter Elementary lists that 81% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder breaks down as 12% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Ritter Elementary reports 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.9:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Ritter Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 21.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 34.1%.

In the broader community, Los Angeles County reports that median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Ritter Elementary is one.

Weigand Avenue Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ritter Elementary. On composite proficiency, Ritter Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 25.2%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 18%: 373 students in 2018 compared to 307 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 24.9:1 in 2018 to 21.9:1 in 2025.

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