Soto Street Elementary

Soto Street Elementary is one of the compact elementary-level communitys in Los Angeles, California, overseen by Los Angeles Unified, with 186 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Soto Street Elementary sits 60% leaner than that benchmark.

Soto Street Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that hosts 406,887 students overall.

Demographically, Soto Street Elementary shows that nearly all students (95%) are Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 3% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 87% 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 above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Soto Street Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 28.5%; Soto Street Elementary posts 44.4%, +15.9 points above that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that median household earnings sit near $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), Soto Street Elementary is one campus in the mix.

KIPP Promesa Prep is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Soto Street Elementary has declined 8%, going from 202 students in 2018 to 186 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

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