Wadsworth Avenue Elementary

Wadsworth Avenue Elementary is a mid-sized primary school in Los Angeles, California, overseen by Los Angeles Unified. The school enrolls 506 students in grades K through 5.

Los Angeles Unified comprises 784 schools with combined enrollment of 406,887 students; Wadsworth Avenue Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Wadsworth Avenue Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%). The remainder reads as 5% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Wadsworth Avenue Elementary has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.8:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Wadsworth Avenue Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 18.2%.

In the broader community, Los Angeles County reports that median household income runs about $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%. Wadsworth Avenue Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Center for Advanced Learning, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wadsworth Avenue Elementary at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 24.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Wadsworth Avenue Elementary's enrollment has decreased 29% since 2018, when it stood at 715 (now 506). The Hispanic share of enrollment fell from 96% to 92% over that span.

On the community side, members of the Wadsworth Avenue Elementary community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.