Stanford Avenue Elementary

Set in South Gate, California, Stanford Avenue Elementary is a tight-knit elementary school, part of Los Angeles Unified. It caters to 329 students across grades 1 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 29% leaner than the state mean of about 465.

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

Looking at the student body, Stanford Avenue Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (97%). By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Stanford Avenue Elementary records 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Stanford Avenue Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. 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, Stanford Avenue 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 21.9%; Stanford Avenue Elementary posts 43.4%, +21.4 points above that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Stanford Avenue Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Stanford Primary Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 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), Stanford Avenue Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 34.9%.

Stanford Avenue Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Stanford Avenue Elementary has fell 41%, going from 558 students in 2018 to 329 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.7:1 in 2018 to 20.6:1 in 2025.

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