Joseph A. Gascon Elementary

Located at 630 South Leonard St., in Los Angeles, California, Joseph A. Gascon Elementary is a moderately sized elementary campus that educates 513 students (grades K through 5), run under Montebello Unified.

Across the 29 schools in Montebello Unified (19,149 students total), Joseph A. Gascon Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Joseph A. Gascon Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (99%). 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 employs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Joseph A. Gascon Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 88% of students are eligible 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Joseph A. Gascon Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.4%, the actual is 25.2%, a residual of -2.2 points.

In the area at large, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household earnings sit near $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%. Joseph A. Gascon Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is KIPP Poder Public, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Joseph A. Gascon Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 27.2%.

Joseph A. Gascon Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Joseph A. Gascon Elementary's enrollment has fell 36% since 2018, when it stood at 805 (now 513). Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.8:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 in 2025.

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