Sierra Park Elementary

Set in Los Angeles, California, Sierra Park Elementary is a tight-knit elementary campus, operated by Los Angeles Unified. It hosts 240 students across grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 48% below typical.

Across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students total), Sierra Park Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Sierra Park Elementary records that nearly all students (92%) are Hispanic. The remainder consists of 3% Asian, 3% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, On paper, Sierra Park Elementary has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.1:1. 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. That share is north of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sierra Park Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.1%, the actual is 38.0%, a residual of +13.8 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 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 Sierra Park Elementary is one.

Cesar Chavez Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sierra Park Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.5%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sierra Park Elementary has shrank 35%, going from 371 students in 2018 to 240 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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