Mary W. Jackson STEAM Multilingual Magnet Elementary

Mary W. Jackson STEAM Multilingual Magnet Elementary, a moderately sized K-5 school in Altadena, California, one of the schools within Pasadena Unified, caters to 658 students, covering grades K through 5. That puts it 42% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Pasadena Unified runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 13,639 students. Mary W. Jackson STEAM Multilingual Magnet Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Mary W. Jackson STEAM Multilingual Magnet Elementary reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 63%. Beyond that, the school records 15% White, 10% Black, 10% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Mary W. Jackson STEAM Multilingual Magnet Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mary W. Jackson STEAM Multilingual Magnet Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.6%, the actual is 43.3%, a residual of -5.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,112, 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), Mary W. Jackson STEAM Multilingual Magnet Elementary is one campus in the mix.

John Muir High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mary W. Jackson STEAM Multilingual Magnet Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mary W. Jackson STEAM Multilingual Magnet Elementary at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 38.9%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Mary W. Jackson STEAM Multilingual Magnet Elementary's enrollment has rose 12% since 2018, when it stood at 588 (now 658). The Hispanic share of enrollment decreased from 71% to 63% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 26.1:1 in 2018 to 24.7:1 in 2025.

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