Sixty-First Street Elementary

Sixty-First Street Elementary operates as a reasonably sized elementary-level community in Los Angeles, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 541 students spanning grades K through 6.

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

In terms of who attends, Sixty-First Street Elementary records that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 10% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sixty-First Street Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.6%; this one delivers 28.5%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Sixty-First Street Elementary is one campus in the mix.

KIPP Scholar Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sixty-First Street Elementary at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 22.5%.

Sixty-First Street Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 13%: 619 students in 2018 compared to 541 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.7:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 in 2025.

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