Seventy-Fourth Street Elementary

Seventy-Fourth Street Elementary is a K-5 school of compact scale in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified, serveing 377 students in grades K through 5.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Seventy-Fourth Street Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Seventy-Fourth Street Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Black (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 40% Hispanic, 11% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 8% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Seventy-Fourth Street Elementary reports 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Seventy-Fourth Street Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.3%, the actual is 30.1%, a residual of +5.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Seventy-Fourth 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 Learning by Design Charter, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Seventy-Fourth Street Elementary at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 19.9%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 30%: 535 students in 2018 compared to 377 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment decreased from 65% to 49% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.3:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 today.

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