Enrollment
230
Elementary
DISTRICT 503 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTEBELLO UNIFIED·NCES 062547003802
Montebello Gardens Elementary
4700 Pine St., Pico Rivera, CA 90660 · (562) 463-5191 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL230 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 82% of California public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
21.3:1
11 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.9:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
202 students
DISTRICT 86% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 45 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 41 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 38 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 40 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 32 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 34 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is 32% larger than its 5th grade class (34).
Student demographics
9%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 8% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
50.5%
CA avg 49.1% . +16.5pp since 2014
Math
53.3%
CA avg 37.7% . +30.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 16 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 30 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 27.6% | 22.9% | 24.8% | 24.8% |
| Math | 28.6% | 24.8% | 26.7% | 20.0% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.5% | 53.3% |
| 2023-24 | 45.0% | 57.3% |
| 2022-23 | 55.8% | 59.2% |
| 2021-22 | 55.0% | 46.9% |
| 2020-21 | 33.3% | 29.4% |
| 2018-19 | 64.0% | 58.7% |
| 2017-18 | 52.2% | 45.9% |
| 2016-17 | 42.7% | 31.4% |
| 2015-16 | 34.0% | 20.0% |
| 2014-15 | 34.0% | 23.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
51.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.1%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+23.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 28% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 24 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Montebello Gardens Elementary
Montebello Gardens Elementary's state test result (51.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montebello Gardens Elementary this school | 230 | 87.8% | 51.6% |
| Arturo Sanchez Elementary Norwalk | 239 | 87.9% | 33.1% |
| Del Rey Elementary Del Rey | 234 | 85.9% | 44.2% |
| Monroe Elementary Santa Ana | 217 | 88.5% | 20.6% |
| Equitas Academy 6 Los Angeles | 211 | 89.6% | N/A |
| Tranquillity Elementary Tranquillity | 209 | 88.0% | 18.9% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Montebello Gardens Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.6% | #1,609 of 5,151 | #361 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.3% | #1,388 of 5,172 ▼ 258 | #323 of 1,129 ▼ 69 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.5% | #1,993 of 5,172 ▲ 279 | #456 of 1,129 ▲ 62 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.0pp | #3,019 of 5,116 | #747 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 230 | #5,221 of 5,915 | #1,181 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.3:1 | #1,692 of 5,352 | #497 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 9.2% | #4,980 of 5,354 | #1,071 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.8% | #1,353 of 5,625 | #523 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -34.7% | #308 of 3,837 | #147 of 947 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
230
-51 (-18%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 291
Student : Teacher
21.3:1
was 21.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 230 | 10.8 | 21.3:1 | 88% (202) |
| 2023-24 | 224 | 12.8 | 17.4:1 | 73% (164) |
| 2022-23 | 233 | 11.9 | 19.6:1 | 83% (193) |
| 2020-21 | 281 | 13 | 21.6:1 | 81% (228) |
| 2017-18 | 352 | 15 | 23.5:1 | 73% (258) |
| 2015-16 | 398 | 11 | 36.2:1 | 85% (340) |
| 2010-11 | 345 | N/A | N/A | 77% (266) |
| 2000-01 | 337 | 19 | 17.7:1 | 86% (291) |
| 1990-91 | 291 | 12 | 24.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Montebello Gardens Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 35% (352 to 230); teachers down 28% (15 to 10.8).
About Montebello Gardens Elementary
Montebello Gardens Elementary operates as a small elementary school in Pico Rivera, California. It covers kindergarten through 5, with a total enrollment of 230 students. Statewide, elementary schools in California average about 465 students each.
Montebello Gardens Elementary falls under Montebello Unified, which has 29 schools enrolling 19,149 students.
The large majority of students at Montebello Gardens Elementary, 95%, are Hispanic. Other reported shares: 3% Asian and 2% White. Los Angeles County's residents are about 48% Hispanic, 47 points below the school's share. Montebello Gardens Elementary has a diversity index of 9%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school reports 10.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 21.3 students per teacher. For comparison, elementary schools in California average 22.3:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 88% of students. It compares with 70% for public schools in Los Angeles County.
Montebello Gardens Elementary is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 82% of California public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, Montebello Gardens Elementary is among the top 10% of schools in California. Predicted: 28.1%. Actual: 51.6%.
Across Los Angeles County, median household income is about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. The public schools of Los Angeles County number 2,244 and enroll about 1,265,907.
The nearest other public school, North Ranchito Elementary, is about 0.3 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Montebello Gardens Elementary. On state test proficiency, Montebello Gardens Elementary ranks 1st in a group of 9 nearby schools.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Montebello Gardens Elementary went from 281 students to 230.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Los Angeles County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
9,808,667
Census ACS
Median income
$90,112
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
2,244
1,265,907 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Montebello Unified
- Schurr HighHigh · 2,121 students
- Bell Gardens HighHigh · 2,046 students
- Montebello HighHigh · 1,907 students
- Bell Gardens IntermediateMiddle · 790 students
- Greenwood ElementaryElementary · 746 students
- Montebello IntermediateMiddle · 733 students
Other schools in Pico Rivera
- El Rancho HighHigh · 1,995 students
- Rivera MiddleMiddle · 544 students
- STEAM Academy @ BurkeMiddle · 534 students
- North Park Academy of the ArtsMiddle · 512 students
- Rivera ElementaryElementary · 473 students
- Valencia Academy of the ArtsElementary · 398 students
Nearby schools
- North Ranchito Elementary0.3 mi · 319
- Fremont Elementary0.7 mi · 366
- North Park Academy of the Arts0.8 mi · 512
- Durfee Elementary0.9 mi · 322
- La Merced Academy0.9 mi · 665
- La Merced Intermediate1.0 mi · 682
Frequently asked questions
About Montebello Gardens ElementaryHow large is Montebello Gardens Elementary?
Montebello Gardens Elementary enrolls approximately 230 students in grades KG-05.
Is Montebello Gardens Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Montebello Gardens Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Montebello Gardens Elementary?
Approximately 21.3:1 students per teacher at Montebello Gardens Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Montebello Gardens Elementary?
Student demographics at Montebello Gardens Elementary are roughly 2% White, 95% Hispanic, 3% Asian.
Is Montebello Gardens Elementary public or private?
Montebello Gardens Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Montebello Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.