Loretta Lampton Elementary

Loretta Lampton Elementary, an average-sized K-5 school in Norwalk, California, one of the schools within Norwalk-La Mirada Unified, enrolls 406 students, covering grades K through 5.

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

In terms of who attends, Loretta Lampton Elementary logs that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder consists of 4% Black, 2% White, 2% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Loretta Lampton Elementary shows 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.6:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Loretta Lampton Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.8%; this one delivers 46.6%.

In the area at large, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Loretta Lampton Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Anna M. Glazier Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Loretta Lampton Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Loretta Lampton Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 31.8%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 34%: 612 students in 2018 compared to 406 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 24.5:1 in 2018 to 22.6:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.