Ernest R. Geddes Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Baldwin Park, California, Ernest R. Geddes Elementary educates 662 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Baldwin Park Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 42% above the state mean of about 465.

Baldwin Park Unified runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 9,856 students. Ernest R. Geddes Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Ernest R. Geddes Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%); the rest is composed of 4% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Ernest R. Geddes Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.2%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Ernest R. Geddes Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: North Park Continuation High, 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 Ernest R. Geddes Elementary at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 35.2%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ernest R. Geddes Elementary has grew 9%, going from 607 students in 2018 to 662 in 2025.

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