Yukon Elementary

Yukon Elementary is a K-5 school of small scale in Torrance, California, one of the schools within Torrance Unified, serveing 296 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Yukon Elementary sits 36% leaner than that benchmark.

Torrance Unified runs 31 schools in total, collectively educating 21,890 students. Yukon Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Yukon Elementary lists that 51% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 19% Asian, 18% White, 6% Black, 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Los Angeles County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Yukon Elementary has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Yukon Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.1%; this one delivers 59.9%.

Zooming out to the county, 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%. Yukon Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is North High, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Yukon Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 56.8%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 5%: 281 students in 2018 compared to 296 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 25.6:1 in 2018 to 22.3:1 today.

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