Madison Elementary

Madison Elementary is an elementary-level community of moderately sized scale in South Gate, California, part of Los Angeles Unified, teacheing 482 students in grades K through 5.

Madison Elementary is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that enrolls 406,887 students overall.

On demographics, Madison Elementary logs that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Madison Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 94% of students at Madison Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. 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, Madison Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 23.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.9%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put 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%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Madison Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Victoria Avenue Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Madison Elementary comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 36.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Madison Elementary's enrollment has contracted 23% since 2018, when it stood at 626 (now 482). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 today.

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