Moffett Elementary

Set in Lennox, California, Moffett Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary-level community, part of Lennox. It works with 626 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 35% bigger than typical.

Moffett Elementary is one of 6 schools operated by Lennox, a district that enrolls 3,941 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Moffett Elementary shows that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder consists of 3% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Moffett Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Moffett Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 24.4%; actual is 39.0%, +14.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that 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%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Moffett Elementary is one.

Animo Leadership High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Moffett Elementary. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Moffett Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 40.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Moffett Elementary's enrollment has declined 28% since 2018, when it stood at 871 (now 626). Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.5:1 in 2018 to 21.6:1 in 2025.

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