Montebello Gardens Elementary

Montebello Gardens Elementary is one of the close-knit elementary schools in Pico Rivera, California, operated by Montebello Unified, with 230 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Montebello Gardens Elementary sits 51% smaller than that benchmark.

Montebello Unified comprises 29 schools with combined enrollment of 19,149 students; Montebello Gardens Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Montebello Gardens Elementary shows that nearly all students (95%) are Hispanic; the rest reads as 3% Asian, 2% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 88% of students at Montebello Gardens Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Montebello Gardens Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 27.2%; actual is 51.4%, +24.2 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Montebello Gardens Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: North Ranchito Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Montebello Gardens Elementary at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 29.4%.

Montebello Gardens Elementary operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 35%: 352 students in 2018 compared to 230 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment contracted from 99% to 95% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 23.5:1 in 2018 to 21.3:1 in 2025.

On allk12, the feed for Montebello Gardens Elementary typically covers classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.