LAX Leader

Out of 8,699 students enrolled in Los Angeles County Office of Education, 3 percent were in first-grade during the 2018-2019 school year, according to the California Department of Education.

The grade with the highest concentration of students was 12th-grade with 14.2 percent of all students.

According to numbers provided by the National Center for Education Services, California is expected to see a decrease of three percent in public elementary and secondary school enrollment from 2017-2029. The state expected to see the largest drop in enrollment is New Mexico with a projected 12 percent decrease, while Washington D.C. is projected to see a 14 percent increase over the same time period.

In a survey conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, seven percent of respondents said large class sizes was the biggest issue facing California's K-12 schools. In the same survey, 50 percent of the respondents said they didn’t view the financial resources their local public school was getting as adequate.

Grade	Number of students	Total %
Kindergarten	359	4.1
First	263	3
Second	219	2.5
Third	196	2.3
Fourth	207	2.4
Fifth	203	2.3
Sixth	931	10.7
Seventh	947	10.9
Eighth	999	11.5
Ninth	976	11.2
10th	1,148	13.2
11th	1,015	11.7
12th	1,236	14.2