Myrtle Avenue Elementary

Located at 10421 Myrtle Ave., in Lamont, California, Myrtle Avenue Elementary is a low-enrollment intermediate school that hosts 422 students (grades 4 through 6), run under Lamont Elementary. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Myrtle Avenue Elementary sits 36% below that benchmark.

Myrtle Avenue Elementary is one of 4 schools operated by Lamont Elementary, a district that educates 2,561 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Myrtle Avenue Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (99%). By comparison, Kern County as a whole is about 57% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Myrtle Avenue Elementary shows 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.1:1. The state averages about 20.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 78% of students at Myrtle Avenue Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Myrtle Avenue Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.7%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Kern County put median household earnings sit near $70,210, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Kern County runs 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), of which Myrtle Avenue Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Nueva Continuation High, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Myrtle Avenue Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 20.4%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Looking at the recent track record. Myrtle Avenue Elementary's enrollment has shrank 18% since 2018, when it stood at 512 (now 422). Class-load math has pulled in: from 29.3:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 in 2025.

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