Tenth Street Elementary

Tenth Street Elementary is a tight-knit elementary school in Los Angeles, California, part of Los Angeles Unified. The school teaches 339 students in grades 1 through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Tenth Street Elementary sits 27% leaner than that benchmark.

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

On demographics, Tenth Street Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (93%). Other groups include 4% Black, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 97% of students at Tenth Street Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, Tenth Street Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 21.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 19.9%.

Across the wider county, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Tenth Street Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Equitas Academy #3 Charter, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tenth Street Elementary has fell 49%, going from 666 students in 2018 to 339 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share shrank from 97% to 93%. Class-load math has fell: from 23.0:1 in 2018 to 21.2:1 in 2025.

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