Torrance Elementary

Torrance Elementary is a reasonably sized K-5 school in Torrance, California, run under Torrance Unified. The school instructs 567 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 22% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Torrance Unified runs 31 schools in total, collectively educating 21,890 students. Torrance Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Torrance Elementary logs that 70% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 10% Asian, 9% White, 7% multiracial, 4% Black. 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 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Torrance Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.6%; this one delivers 46.8%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Torrance Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Gene Drevno Community Day is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Torrance Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Torrance Elementary at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 59.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 11%: 511 students in 2018 compared to 567 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 65% to 70% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 26.9:1 in 2018 to 24.6:1 in 2025.

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