John Foster Dulles Elementary

John Foster Dulles Elementary is a K-5 school of compact scale in La Mirada, California, operated by Norwalk-La Mirada Unified, works with 250 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so John Foster Dulles Elementary sits 46% leaner than that benchmark.

John Foster Dulles Elementary is one of 25 schools operated by Norwalk-La Mirada Unified, a district that serves 14,560 students overall.

Looking at the student body, John Foster Dulles Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 15% White, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, John Foster Dulles Elementary has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), John Foster Dulles Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.9%, the actual is 45.1%, a residual of -0.8 points.

In the area at large, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. John Foster Dulles Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Reginald M. Benton Middle, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), John Foster Dulles Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 8%: 272 students in 2018 compared to 250 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 24.7:1 in 2018 to 22.6:1 today.

On this page, members of the John Foster Dulles Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.