Utah Street Elementary

Utah Street Elementary operates as a compact elementary-level community in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 360 students spanning grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Utah Street Elementary sits 23% leaner than that benchmark.

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

On demographics, Utah Street Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%); the rest reads as 2% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, Utah Street Elementary reports 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.9:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Utah Street Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 27.7%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household income runs about $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Utah Street Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez High, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Utah Street Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 29.0%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Utah Street Elementary's enrollment has contracted 19% since 2018, when it stood at 445 (now 360). Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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