Woodcrest Elementary

Located at 1151 West 109th St., in Los Angeles, California, Woodcrest Elementary is a mid-sized elementary campus that teaches 611 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Los Angeles Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Woodcrest Elementary sits 31% above that benchmark.

Across the 784 schools in Los Angeles Unified (406,887 students total), Woodcrest Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Woodcrest Elementary records that 64% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 30% Black, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, Woodcrest Elementary lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Woodcrest Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.7%, the actual is 27.1%, a residual of +6.3 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Woodcrest Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Washington Primary Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Woodcrest Elementary at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 22.6%.

Woodcrest Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 25%: 818 students in 2018 compared to 611 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.