Foster Elementary

Foster Elementary is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in Baldwin Park, California, run under Baldwin Park Unified, with 430 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

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

Looking at the student body, Foster Elementary logs that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school records 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 lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Foster Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Foster Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 26.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.8%.

In the broader community, 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%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Foster Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Charles D. Jones Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Foster Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 32.7%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Foster Elementary's enrollment has shrank 34% since 2018, when it stood at 649 (now 430). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 today.

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