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Enrollment
810
Elementary
DISTRICT 710 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DOWNEY UNIFIED·NCES 061146010237
Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary
13220 South Bellflower Blvd., Downey, CA 90242 · (562) 904-3590 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL810 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 94% of California public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
23.1:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 24.3:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
620 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 158 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 122 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 114 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 128 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 148 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 140 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (158) is 13% larger than its 5th grade class (140).
Student demographics
29%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 21% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
59.6%
CA avg 49.1% . +13.6pp since 2014
Math
56.3%
CA avg 37.7% . +12.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 14 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 12 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 31.5% | 28.1% | 16.8% | 23.6% |
| Math | 30.6% | 25.7% | 19.3% | 24.4% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.6% | 56.3% |
| 2023-24 | 49.2% | 50.1% |
| 2022-23 | 48.1% | 38.8% |
| 2021-22 | 44.7% | 38.0% |
| 2018-19 | 58.0% | 55.9% |
| 2017-18 | 58.2% | 54.6% |
| 2016-17 | 61.8% | 60.0% |
| 2015-16 | 59.0% | 56.0% |
| 2014-15 | 46.0% | 44.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
54.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.7%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 35% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary
Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary's state test result (54.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary this school | 810 | 76.5% | 54.1% |
| Highgrove Elementary Riverside | 848 | 80.4% | 27.7% |
| Thurgood Marshall Elementary Oxnard | 702 | 74.8% | 36.5% |
| Sequoia Elementary Manteca | 814 | 77.5% | 18.9% |
| Topaz Preparatory Academy Hesperia | 722 | 77.7% | 29.4% |
| Williams (Spencer V.) Elementary Downey | 736 | 76.2% | 69.0% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.1% | #1,453 of 5,151 | #330 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.3% | #1,245 of 5,172 ▲ 266 | #289 of 1,129 ▲ 48 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.6% | #1,359 of 5,172 ▲ 591 | #308 of 1,129 ▲ 127 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +16.6pp | #125 of 5,116 | #55 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 810 | #359 of 5,915 | #55 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.1:1 | #3,101 of 5,352 | #753 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 29.0% | #3,995 of 5,354 | #751 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.5% | #2,495 of 5,625 | #774 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.7% | #3,776 of 3,837 | #941 of 947 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
810
-65 (-7%) vs 2020
+7% since 2000-01, when it was 757
Student : Teacher
23.1:1
was 26.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 810 | 35 | 23.1:1 | 77% (620) |
| 2023-24 | 834 | 32 | 26.1:1 | 68% (570) |
| 2022-23 | 847 | 33.2 | 25.6:1 | 68% (572) |
| 2020-21 | 875 | 33 | 26.5:1 | 67% (582) |
| 2017-18 | 816 | 30.5 | 26.8:1 | 71% (576) |
| 2015-16 | 811 | 31 | 26.2:1 | 73% (590) |
| 2010-11 | 772 | N/A | N/A | 63% (489) |
| 2000-01 | 757 | 37 | 20.5:1 | 71% (541) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (816 to 810); teachers up 15% (30.5 to 35).
About Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary
Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary is an elementary school in Downey, California, according to federal school records. In all, 810 students attend the school in kindergarten through 5. It has 74% more students than the average for elementary schools in California (about 465).
Downey Unified is the district for Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary. It has 21 schools and 22,405 students.
The share of Hispanic students at Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary is 84%. Other groups include 5% White, 5% Asian, and 5% Black. The county population is about 48% Hispanic. The diversity index for Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary is 29%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school had 35 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 23.1:1. Across elementary schools in California, the average ratio is 22.3:1. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 77%.
Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 94% of California public elementary schools.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary is among the top 10% of schools in California. Predicted: 34.7%. Actual: 54.1%.
The school is in Los Angeles County, where the median household earns about $90,112 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Across Los Angeles County, 2,244 public schools serve about 1,265,907 students.
Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary's nearest public school is Carpenter (C. C.) Elementary (about 0.4 miles). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary ranks 1st of 7 on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal enrollment counts fell from 875 (2020-21) to 810 (2024-25). There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (23.1:1) than in 2020-21 (26.5:1).
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Los Angeles County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
9,808,667
Census ACS
Median income
$90,112
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
2,244
1,265,907 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Downey Unified
- Downey HighHigh · 4,051 students
- Warren (Earl) HighHigh · 3,609 students
- Stauffer (Mary R.) MiddleMiddle · 1,329 students
- Doty (Wendy Lopour) MiddleMiddle · 1,304 students
- Griffiths (Gordon) MiddleMiddle · 1,264 students
- Sussman (Edward A.) MiddleMiddle · 1,240 students
Other schools in Downey
- Downey HighHigh · 4,051 students
- Warren (Earl) HighHigh · 3,609 students
- Stauffer (Mary R.) MiddleMiddle · 1,329 students
- Doty (Wendy Lopour) MiddleMiddle · 1,304 students
- Griffiths (Gordon) MiddleMiddle · 1,264 students
- Sussman (Edward A.) MiddleMiddle · 1,240 students
Nearby schools
- Carpenter (C. C.) Elementary0.4 mi · 796
- Gauldin (A.L.) Elementary0.7 mi · 641
- Woodruff Academy0.8 mi · 14
- Columbus (Christopher) High0.8 mi · 368
- Ernie Pyle Elementary0.9 mi · 341
- Ward (E. W.) Elementary1.0 mi · 543
Frequently asked questions
About Lewis (Ed C.) ElementaryHow many students attend Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary?
Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary enrolls approximately 810 students in grades KG-05.
Is Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary have?
Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary employs 35 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 23.1:1.
How diverse is Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary?
Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary reports a student body of 5% White, 84% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary?
Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary is overseen by Downey Unified in Los Angeles County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.