Virginia Road Elementary

Set in Los Angeles, California, Virginia Road Elementary is a cozy elementary campus, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. It teaches 217 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 53% 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. Virginia Road Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Virginia Road Elementary lists that 67% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 29% 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, The school reports having 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Virginia Road Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 95% of students are eligible 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Virginia Road Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 22.7%; actual is 42.6%, +19.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household earnings sit near $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Virginia Road Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ISANA Nascent Academy, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Virginia Road Elementary comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 20.5%.

Virginia Road Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Virginia Road Elementary has fell 38%, going from 350 students in 2018 to 217 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 38% to 29% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 in 2025.

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