San Pedro Street Elementary

San Pedro Street Elementary, a mid-tier K-5 school in Los Angeles, California, part of Los Angeles Unified, caters to 403 students, covering grades K through 5.

San Pedro Street Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that educates 406,887 students overall.

Demographically, San Pedro Street Elementary lists that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 2% Black. 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, San Pedro Street Elementary shows 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting San Pedro Street Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, San Pedro Street Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 20.9%; this one delivers 36.3%, a residual of +15.3 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate 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%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), San Pedro Street Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Tri-C Community Day is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, San Pedro Street Elementary comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 30.8%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 45%: 738 students in 2018 compared to 403 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 23.8:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 in 2025.

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