Saturn Street Elementary

Located at 5360 Saturn St., in Los Angeles, California, Saturn Street Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school that educates 277 students (grades K through 5), part of Los Angeles Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 40% smaller than typical.

Los Angeles Unified comprises 784 schools with combined enrollment of 406,887 students; Saturn Street Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Saturn Street Elementary reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 77%. Other groups include 12% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 92% of students at Saturn Street Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Saturn Street Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.4%, the actual is 33.4%, a residual of +9.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Saturn Street Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is New Los Angeles Charter, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Saturn Street Elementary comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 33.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Saturn Street Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 19% since 2018, when it stood at 343 (now 277). Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 18% to 12%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.

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