Lawndale Elementary 鈥� Los Angeles County, CA

Key statistics

4,324

Students enrolled

9

Public schools

193

Classroom teachers (FTE)

22.4:1

Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

Kindergarten 569
Grade 1 420
Grade 2 473
Grade 3 467
Grade 4 473
Grade 5 470
Grade 6 439
Grade 7 524
Grade 8 489

By race/ethnicity

Hispanic/Latino 77%
Black or African American 9%
Asian 5%
Two or more races 4%
White 4%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%
American Indian or Alaska Native <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

83% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 3,595 of 4,314 students in the district's schools

Free lunch 71%
Reduced-price lunch 12%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$26,956 spent per student on day-to-day operations California median: $19,068 per student

Spending per student

Instruction $17,010
Support services $8,836
Other (food service, etc.) $1,110

Where the money comes from

Local 11%
State 70%
Federal 19%

Total revenue $231.8 milliontotal spending $231.8 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

KG to 12

Locale (NCES)

Suburb: Large

Total staff (FTE)

575

District office

4161 West 147th St., Lawndale CA 90260

Phone

(310) 973-1300

County

Los Angeles County

Official website

NCES District ID

621210

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About Lawndale Elementary

Description provided by the district or community 鈥� not part of the NCES dataset.

The Lawndale Elementary School District is a community in which all are scholars and all are teachers, working together to spark a life-long love for learning. Situated at the southern edge of the Los Angeles basin, Lawndale Elementary School District is a kaleidoscope of peoples. Here we welcome students and families from nations as far as Vietnam and Nigeria, from nations as near as Mexico, serving first generation immigrants and long-established residents side by side. Our differences are our strength as we celebrate our cultures, delight in our languages, and create community in classrooms, schools, and neighborhoods, with equity and excellence our goal for all.