Durfee Elementary

As a cozy elementary campus in Pico Rivera, California, Durfee Elementary serves 322 students from grades K through 5, part of El Rancho Unified. That puts it 31% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

El Rancho Unified runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 6,716 students. Durfee Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Durfee Elementary reports that 97% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Durfee Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.9%, the actual is 30.3%, a residual of -2.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Los Angeles County shows 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. Durfee Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: North Park Academy of the Arts, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Durfee Elementary at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 32.3%.

Durfee Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 20%: 401 students in 2018 compared to 322 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 26.7:1 in 2018 to 24.8:1 in 2025.

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