Wilmington Park Elementary

Wilmington Park Elementary is one of the reasonably sized elementary schools in Wilmington, California, overseen by Los Angeles Unified, with 472 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

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

Demographically, Wilmington Park Elementary shows that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 2% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Wilmington Park Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 96% of students at Wilmington Park Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Wilmington Park Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.3%, the actual is 35.6%, a residual of +13.3 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Wilmington Park Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Harry Bridges Span is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wilmington Park Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 31.7%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 39%: 776 students in 2018 compared to 472 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 in 2025.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.