Earl E. Edmondson Elementary

Earl E. Edmondson Elementary is a close-knit elementary-level community in Norwalk, California, one of the schools within Norwalk-La Mirada Unified. The school caters to 352 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 24% leaner than the state mean of about 465.

Within Norwalk-La Mirada Unified, which oversees 25 schools and 14,560 students, Earl E. Edmondson Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Earl E. Edmondson Elementary logs that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 4% Asian. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.8:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, Earl E. Edmondson Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.1%, the actual is 24.7%, a residual of -5.3 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Earl E. Edmondson Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Los Alisos Middle, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Earl E. Edmondson Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 34.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Earl E. Edmondson Elementary's enrollment has shrank 26% since 2018, when it stood at 476 (now 352). Class-load math has narrowed: from 25.1:1 in 2018 to 21.8:1 in 2025.

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