Edison Elementary

Edison Elementary operates as a reasonably sized elementary campus in Santa Monica, California, one of the schools within Santa Monica-Malibu Unified. Current enrollment sits at 404 students spanning grades K through 5.

Santa Monica-Malibu Unified runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 8,616 students. Edison Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Edison Elementary reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 69%; the rest breaks down as 27% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Edison Elementary lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 40% of students are eligible 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 meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Edison Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 55.8%; Edison Elementary posts 72.1%, +16.4 points above that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Edison Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Grant Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Edison Elementary. On composite proficiency, Edison Elementary comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 57.3%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Edison Elementary's enrollment has contracted 10% since 2018, when it stood at 447 (now 404). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 23.5:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 today.

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