Mark Twain Elementary

Mark Twain Elementary, a moderately sized K-5 school in Lynwood, California, run under Lynwood Unified, caters to 542 students, covering grades K through 6.

Mark Twain Elementary is one of 17 schools operated by Lynwood Unified, a district that caters to 10,851 students overall.

Demographically, Mark Twain Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (90%); the rest comes out to 8% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mark Twain Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 24.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.0%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Los Angeles County shows 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), Mark Twain Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Soleil Academy Charter, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mark Twain Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.3%.

Mark Twain Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Mark Twain Elementary's enrollment has fell 13% since 2018, when it stood at 622 (now 542). Class-load math has fell: from 25.9:1 in 2018 to 21.7:1 in 2025.

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