Brightwood Elementary

Set in Monterey Park, California, Brightwood Elementary is an expansive elementary-level community, operated by Alhambra Unified. It teaches 804 students across grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 73% bigger than typical.

Within Alhambra Unified, which oversees 16 schools and 14,548 students, Brightwood Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Brightwood Elementary lists that 55% of the student body identifies as Asian. Beyond that, the school logs 37% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 15% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Brightwood Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.8%, the actual is 68.0%, a residual of +7.2 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Brightwood Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Robert Hill Lane Elementary 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. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Brightwood Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 55.5%.

Brightwood Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Brightwood Elementary has decreased 15%, going from 942 students in 2018 to 804 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 27.4:1 in 2018 to 24.3:1 in 2025.

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