Westport Heights Elementary

Westport Heights Elementary is one of the micro-enrollment elementary schools in Los Angeles, California, part of Los Angeles Unified, with 166 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Westport Heights Elementary sits 64% below that benchmark.

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

On demographics, Westport Heights Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 33% Black, 15% multiracial, 9% Asian, 7% White. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably less Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Westport Heights Elementary lists 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Westport Heights Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.7%; this one delivers 40.7%.

In the area at large, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 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 Westport Heights Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Open Charter Magnet, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Westport Heights Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Westport Heights Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 44.7%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Westport Heights Elementary's enrollment has fell 42% since 2018, when it stood at 286 (now 166). Black enrollment moved from 39% to 33% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 22.0:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 in 2025.

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