GRIDLEY-MONTANEZ DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY

As a moderately sized elementary-level community in San Fernando, California, GRIDLEY-MONTANEZ DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY caters to 454 students from grades K through 5, run under Los Angeles Unified.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, GRIDLEY-MONTANEZ DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, GRIDLEY-MONTANEZ DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY logs that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 3% Black, 2% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, GRIDLEY-MONTANEZ DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GRIDLEY-MONTANEZ DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 28.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 19.7%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which GRIDLEY-MONTANEZ DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY is one.

Nearest neighbor: PUC Community Charter Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GRIDLEY-MONTANEZ DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 36.6%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. GRIDLEY-MONTANEZ DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY's enrollment has edged down 19% since 2018, when it stood at 559 (now 454). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged down from 96% to 92% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 in 2025.

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