Arturo Sanchez Elementary

Set in Norwalk, California, Arturo Sanchez Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary campus, overseen by Norwalk-La Mirada Unified. It serves 239 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 49% below typical.

Norwalk-La Mirada Unified runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 14,560 students. Arturo Sanchez Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Arturo Sanchez Elementary reports that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 3% Asian, 2% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Arturo Sanchez Elementary has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Arturo Sanchez Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 88% of students at Arturo Sanchez Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Arturo Sanchez Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.1%; this one delivers 33.3%.

Around the school, 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%. Arturo Sanchez Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Niemes (John H.) Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Arturo Sanchez Elementary. On composite proficiency, Arturo Sanchez Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 37.3%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 28%: 331 students in 2018 compared to 239 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 27.6:1 in 2018 to 23.9:1 in 2025.

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