South Park Elementary

Located at 8510 Towne Ave., in Los Angeles, California, South Park Elementary is a sprawling elementary-level community that serves 825 students (grades K through 6), overseen by Los Angeles Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so South Park Elementary sits 77% bigger than that benchmark.

South Park Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that works with 406,887 students overall.

On demographics, South Park Elementary records that nearly all students (85%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 11% Black, 3% 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, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, South Park Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 21.2%; this one delivers 18.8%.

In the broader community, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. South Park Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Mervyn M. Dymally High, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), South Park Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 24.8%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at South Park Elementary has edged down 18%, going from 1,006 students in 2018 to 825 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 17% to 11% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.9:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 in 2025.

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