West Hollywood Elementary

Located at 970 North Hammond St., in West Hollywood, California, West Hollywood Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school that instructs 313 students (grades K through 5), part of Los Angeles Unified. That puts it 33% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

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

Demographically, West Hollywood Elementary records that 63% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 16% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 31% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), West Hollywood Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 50.8%; West Hollywood Elementary posts 73.4%, +22.6 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. West Hollywood Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Rosewood Avenue Elementary, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around West Hollywood Elementary. On composite proficiency, West Hollywood Elementary comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 52.7%.

West Hollywood Elementary operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at West Hollywood Elementary has decreased 26%, going from 424 students in 2018 to 313 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share climbed from 4% to 10%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.9:1 in 2018 to 23.2:1 today.

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