West Vernon Avenue Elementary

West Vernon Avenue Elementary operates as a mid-tier primary school in Los Angeles, California, part of Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 470 students spanning grades K through 5.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, West Vernon Avenue Elementary reports that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 6% Black. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.4:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, West Vernon Avenue Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 20.6%; this one delivers 36.5%, a residual of +16.0 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) shows that median household earnings sit near $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%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which West Vernon Avenue Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Global Education Academy, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. West Vernon Avenue Elementary's enrollment has edged down 37% since 2018, when it stood at 752 (now 470). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 today.

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