Madison Elementary

Madison Elementary is a cozy K-5 school in Pomona, California, overseen by Pomona Unified. The school instructs 382 students in grades K through 6.

Madison Elementary is one of 37 schools operated by Pomona Unified, a district that enrolls 20,422 students overall.

On demographics, Madison Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (90%). Beyond that, the school records 5% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Madison Elementary has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Madison Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.5%, the actual is 32.3%, a residual of +10.8 points.

In the broader community, 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%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Madison Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Fremont Academy of Engineering and Design is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Madison Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Madison Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 25.0%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 29%: 539 students in 2018 compared to 382 in 2025.

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