Towne Avenue Elementary

Towne Avenue Elementary is an elementary campus of cozy scale in Carson, California, overseen by Los Angeles Unified, hosting 288 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 38% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

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

On the student-mix side, Towne Avenue Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 16% Black, 5% Asian, 2% Pacific Islander, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Towne Avenue Elementary shows 14 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 Towne Avenue Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 82% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Towne 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 31.7%; Towne Avenue Elementary posts 46.4%, +14.6 points above that line.

In the area at large, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), Towne Avenue Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Leapwood Avenue Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Towne Avenue Elementary comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 44.9%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 10%: 319 students in 2018 compared to 288 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment climbed from 12% to 16% over that span.

Inside the community feed, members of the Towne Avenue Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.