Trinity Street Elementary

Set in Los Angeles, California, Trinity Street Elementary is a tiny elementary campus, part of Los Angeles Unified. It teaches 185 students across grades 2 through 5. That puts it 60% smaller 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. Trinity Street Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Trinity Street Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%). Other groups include 4% Black, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, Trinity Street Elementary lists 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Trinity Street Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.9%, the actual is 21.6%, a residual of +0.7 points.

In the area at large, census data for Los Angeles County shows 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%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Trinity Street Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Gabriella Charter 2, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Trinity Street Elementary comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 25.8%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Trinity Street Elementary's enrollment has shrank 41% since 2018, when it stood at 316 (now 185). Class-load math has fell: from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

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