Daisy Gibson Elementary

Daisy Gibson Elementary operates as a big elementary-level community in Palmdale, California, overseen by Keppel Union Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 714 students spanning grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Daisy Gibson Elementary sits 54% larger than that benchmark.

Within Keppel Union Elementary, which oversees 6 schools and 2,784 students, Daisy Gibson Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Daisy Gibson Elementary reports that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 3% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Daisy Gibson Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Daisy Gibson Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.5%, the actual is 21.0%, a residual of -12.5 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Daisy Gibson Elementary is one.

Littlerock High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Daisy Gibson Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Daisy Gibson Elementary at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 21.1%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 14%: 627 students in 2018 compared to 714 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 90% to 95%.

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