Twenty-Eighth Street Elementary

Twenty-Eighth Street Elementary operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in Los Angeles, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 459 students spanning grades K through 5.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Twenty-Eighth Street Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Twenty-Eighth Street Elementary reports that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Twenty-Eighth Street Elementary lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.1:1. 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. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Twenty-Eighth Street Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.8%, the actual is 25.1%, a residual of +4.3 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Twenty-Eighth Street Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Synergy Charter Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Twenty-Eighth Street Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 29.6%.

Twenty-Eighth Street Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 37%: 732 students in 2018 compared to 459 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.2:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 today.

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