Sheridan Street Elementary

Sheridan Street Elementary, a reasonably sized elementary-level community in Los Angeles, California, part of Los Angeles Unified, enrolls 555 students, covering grades K through 6.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Sheridan Street Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sheridan Street Elementary logs that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Sheridan Street Elementary has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Sheridan Street Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.3%, the actual is 27.3%, a residual of +5.0 points.

In the surrounding community, 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 the poverty rate sits near 10%. Sheridan 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 Bridge Street Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sheridan Street Elementary comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 29.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 33%: 824 students in 2018 compared to 555 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.3:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 today.

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