Cesar E. Chavez Elementary

Cesar E. Chavez Elementary is one of the expansive elementary campuss in Bell Gardens, California, one of the schools within Montebello Unified, with 702 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 51% above the state mean of about 465.

Across the 29 schools in Montebello Unified (19,149 students total), Cesar E. Chavez Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary records that nearly all students (100%) are Hispanic. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 91% of students at Cesar E. Chavez Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Cesar E. Chavez Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.0%, the actual is 29.7%, a residual of +4.7 points.

Across the wider county, Los Angeles County reports that median household earnings sit near $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Cesar E. Chavez Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Bell Gardens High, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cesar E. Chavez Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 25.7%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cesar E. Chavez Elementary has shrank 25%, going from 935 students in 2018 to 702 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 26.0:1 in 2018 to 22.4:1 in 2025.

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