Jack Northrop Elementary

Located at 835 East Avenue K-4, in Lancaster, California, Jack Northrop Elementary is an average-sized K-5 school that teaches 645 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Lancaster Elementary. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 39% larger than typical.

Jack Northrop Elementary is one of 23 schools operated by Lancaster Elementary, a district that caters to 13,765 students overall.

Demographically, Jack Northrop Elementary logs that 61% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 26% Black, 6% multiracial, 6% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Jack Northrop Elementary has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.8:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Jack Northrop Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.3%, the actual is 17.9%, a residual of -8.4 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Jack Northrop Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Fulton and Alsbury Academy of Arts and Engineering is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jack Northrop Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 22.6%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jack Northrop Elementary has declined 10%, going from 713 students in 2018 to 645 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 52% to 61%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 27.4:1 in 2018 to 24.8:1 today.

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