Montebello Park Elementary

Montebello Park Elementary is one of the intimate elementary-level communitys in Los Angeles, California, part of Montebello Unified, with 365 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 22% leaner than typical.

Montebello Park Elementary is one of 29 schools operated by Montebello Unified, a district that instructs 19,149 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Montebello Park Elementary logs that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Montebello Park Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Montebello Park Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 27.4%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Montebello Park Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Joseph A. Gascon Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Montebello Park Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Montebello Park Elementary at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 28.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 31%: 527 students in 2018 compared to 365 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.1:1 in 2018 to 23.2:1 today.

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