Woodlawn Avenue Elementary

Woodlawn Avenue Elementary, an average-sized elementary school in Bell, California, part of Los Angeles Unified, educates 523 students, covering grades K through 5.

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

Demographically, Woodlawn Avenue Elementary shows that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Woodlawn Avenue Elementary has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Woodlawn Avenue Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Woodlawn Avenue Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 24.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.8%.

In the surrounding community, Los Angeles County reports that median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Woodlawn Avenue Elementary is one.

Heliotrope Avenue Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Woodlawn Avenue Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 35.1%.

Woodlawn Avenue Elementary operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 29%: 735 students in 2018 compared to 523 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.3:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 today.

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