Mark Keppel Elementary

Mark Keppel Elementary is a big primary school in Glendale, California, part of Glendale Unified. The school caters to 955 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 105% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Across the 32 schools in Glendale Unified (25,294 students total), Mark Keppel Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Mark Keppel Elementary shows that 68% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 18% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, Mark Keppel Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 58.3%, a residual of +8.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Mark Keppel Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Eleanor J. Toll Middle, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mark Keppel Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mark Keppel Elementary at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 47.2%.

Mark Keppel Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mark Keppel Elementary has contracted 8%, going from 1,042 students in 2018 to 955 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment decreased from 27% to 18% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 27.4:1 in 2018 to 25.2:1 today.

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