Bandini Elementary

Set in City Of Commerce, California, Bandini Elementary is a tight-knit K-5 school, overseen by Montebello Unified. It enrolls 260 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 44% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Montebello Unified runs 29 schools in total, collectively educating 19,149 students. Bandini Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bandini Elementary logs that nearly all students (99%) are Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Bandini Elementary has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Bandini Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.5%; this one delivers 22.8%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records 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%. Bandini Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Kirby Dorothy Camp is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bandini Elementary at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 32.4%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 40%: 433 students in 2018 compared to 260 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 in 2025.

On allk12, members of the Bandini Elementary community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.