Stanford Primary Center

Stanford Primary Center is a very small elementary school in California, located in South Gate. Students in kindergarten make up the school's enrollment of 112 students. By comparison, elementary schools in California enroll about 465 students on average.

Stanford Primary Center is one of the 784 schools that make up Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students in total).

Hispanic students are 97% of those enrolled at Stanford Primary Center. That compares with about 48% Hispanic among all Los Angeles County residents. A diversity index of 5% means there is a 5% chance two randomly chosen students at Stanford Primary Center are from different groups.

Stanford Primary Center lists 6 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 18.7 students per teacher. Across elementary schools in California, the average ratio is 22.3:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 96% of the student body. The 70% average for public schools in Los Angeles County is 26 points lower.

In the wider Los Angeles County area, the median household earns about $90,112 a year, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Across Los Angeles County, 2,244 public schools serve about 1,265,907 students.

Of the public schools around it, Stanford Primary Center is closest to Stanford Avenue Elementary, about 0.2 miles away. Stanford Primary Center has at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

In 2024-25, the school enrolled 112, down from 134 in 2020-21. The school's ratio increased from 16.8:1 to 18.7:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.

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