Taper Avenue Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in San Pedro, California, Taper Avenue Elementary works with 672 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Los Angeles Unified. That puts it 45% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Taper Avenue Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Taper Avenue Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 19% White, 11% multiracial, 8% Asian, 5% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Taper Avenue Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 54.8%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Taper Avenue Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is William J. Johnston Community Day, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Taper Avenue Elementary comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 41.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Taper Avenue Elementary's enrollment has fell 7% since 2018, when it stood at 720 (now 672). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 24% to 19%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.6:1 in 2018 to 21.7:1 today.

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