Martha Baldwin Elementary

Martha Baldwin Elementary operates as an expansive elementary-level community in Alhambra, California, one of the schools within Alhambra Unified. Current enrollment sits at 923 students spanning grades K through 8. That puts it 98% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Alhambra Unified, which oversees 16 schools and 14,548 students, Martha Baldwin Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Martha Baldwin Elementary records that 66% of the student body identifies as Asian. The remainder looks like 28% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 15% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Martha Baldwin Elementary has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 45% of students at Martha Baldwin 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 meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Martha Baldwin Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.6%; this one delivers 65.0%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), Martha Baldwin Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: San Gabriel High, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Martha Baldwin Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Martha Baldwin Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 51.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Martha Baldwin Elementary has decreased 16%, going from 1,100 students in 2018 to 923 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 28.3:1 in 2018 to 25.3:1 today.

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