San Gabriel Avenue Elementary

San Gabriel Avenue Elementary operates as an average-sized K-5 school in South Gate, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 432 students spanning grades K through 5.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. San Gabriel Avenue Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, San Gabriel Avenue Elementary lists that 97% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 3% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.6:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 96% of students at San Gabriel Avenue Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), San Gabriel Avenue Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.5%, the actual is 28.7%, a residual of +6.1 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) shows that 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. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which San Gabriel Avenue Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Valiente College Preparatory Charter, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), San Gabriel Avenue Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 31.3%.

San Gabriel Avenue Elementary operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 32%: 637 students in 2018 compared to 432 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 23.6:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 in 2025.

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