Sally Ride Elementary: A SMArT Academy

Sally Ride Elementary: A SMArT Academy operates as a low-enrollment elementary campus in Los Angeles, California, run under Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 367 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Sally Ride Elementary: A SMArT Academy sits 21% smaller than that benchmark.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Sally Ride Elementary: A SMArT Academy is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Sally Ride Elementary: A SMArT Academy shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%). Beyond that, the school shows 5% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Sally Ride Elementary: A SMArT Academy has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Sally Ride Elementary: A SMArT Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 21.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.4%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Sally Ride Elementary: A SMArT Academy is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is ISANA Himalia Academy, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sally Ride Elementary: A SMArT Academy comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 22.0%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Sally Ride Elementary: A SMArT Academy's enrollment has fell 34% since 2018, when it stood at 560 (now 367). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 21.6:1 today.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.