Margaret Heath Elementary

Margaret Heath Elementary is an elementary campus of compact scale in Baldwin Park, California, overseen by Baldwin Park Unified, works with 320 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Margaret Heath Elementary sits 31% below that benchmark.

Baldwin Park Unified runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 9,856 students. Margaret Heath Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Margaret Heath Elementary lists that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Margaret Heath Elementary logs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.1:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Margaret Heath Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.0%; this one delivers 21.9%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) reports that 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), Margaret Heath Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BP STEM Academy, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Margaret Heath Elementary comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.4%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 6-year window. Over the past 6-year window, the student count decreased 33%: 477 students in 2018 compared to 320 in 2024.

On the community side, members of the Margaret Heath Elementary community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.