Greenwood Elementary

Greenwood Elementary operates as a sprawling elementary school in Montebello, California, part of Montebello Unified. Current enrollment sits at 746 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 60% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Montebello Unified comprises 29 schools with combined enrollment of 19,149 students; Greenwood Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Greenwood Elementary records that nearly all students (97%) are Hispanic. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 91% of students at Greenwood Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Greenwood Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.0%, the actual is 21.8%, a residual of -3.3 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) shows that median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Greenwood Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Applied Technology Center, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Greenwood Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Greenwood Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 30.7%.

Greenwood Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 18%: 914 students in 2018 compared to 746 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 in 2025.

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