Foster Road Elementary

Foster Road Elementary is a compact elementary campus in La Mirada, California, operated by Norwalk-La Mirada Unified. The school instructs 246 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Foster Road Elementary sits 47% leaner than that benchmark.

Norwalk-La Mirada Unified runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 14,560 students. Foster Road Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Foster Road Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%). The remainder is composed of 5% Asian, 4% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Foster Road Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.1%; this one delivers 42.6%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) reports that median household income runs about $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 Foster Road Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Arlie F. Hutchinson Middle, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Foster Road Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.1%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Foster Road Elementary's enrollment has decreased 30% since 2018, when it stood at 351 (now 246).

On the community side, members of the Foster Road Elementary community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.