Lakeland Elementary

As a modestly sized K-5 school in Norwalk, California, Lakeland Elementary hosts 315 students from grades K through 5, part of Little Lake City Elementary. That puts it 32% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Little Lake City Elementary runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 3,535 students. Lakeland Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Lakeland Elementary lists that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 9% Asian, 5% White, 3% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Lakeland Elementary lists 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.0:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 77% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lakeland Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 33.4%; this one delivers 49.9%, a residual of +16.5 points.

In the surrounding community, 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 the poverty rate sits near 10%. Lakeland 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 Cresson Elementary, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lakeland Elementary. On composite proficiency, Lakeland Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.7%.

Lakeland Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Lakeland Elementary's enrollment has edged down 4% since 2018, when it stood at 327 (now 315). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 91% to 82%. Class-load math has tightened: from 25.1:1 in 2018 to 21.0:1 in 2025.

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