Evergreen Elementary

Evergreen Elementary is a small elementary campus in Whittier, California, one of the schools within East Whittier City Elementary. The school instructs 392 students in grades K through 5.

Across the 13 schools in East Whittier City Elementary (7,442 students total), Evergreen Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Evergreen Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%). Beyond that, the school lists 4% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Evergreen Elementary has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Evergreen 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 26.8%; Evergreen Elementary posts 49.8%, +23.0 points above that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), Evergreen Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Lydia Jackson College Preparatory Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Evergreen Elementary. On composite proficiency, Evergreen Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 48.7%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Evergreen Elementary has ticked down 12%, going from 445 students in 2018 to 392 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 23.4:1 in 2018 to 25.1:1 in 2025.

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