Craig Williams Elementary

Craig Williams Elementary is one of the average-sized elementary schools in Lakewood, California, operated by Bellflower Unified, with 478 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Within Bellflower Unified, which oversees 15 schools and 9,573 students, Craig Williams Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Craig Williams Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment; the rest looks like 14% Black, 4% Asian, 4% Pacific Islander, 4% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Craig Williams Elementary lists 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 87% of students at Craig Williams 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, Craig Williams Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.5%, the actual is 26.0%, a residual of -1.6 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Craig Williams Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Bellflower Alternative Education Center, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Craig Williams Elementary at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 39.1%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 28%: 664 students in 2018 compared to 478 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 65% to 71%.

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