Nancy Cory Elementary

Nancy Cory Elementary is one of the heavily attended primary schools in Lancaster, California, part of Lancaster Elementary, with 728 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 57% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Lancaster Elementary comprises 23 schools with combined enrollment of 13,765 students; Nancy Cory Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Nancy Cory Elementary lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 24% Black, 13% White, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 26.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Nancy Cory Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 79% of students at Nancy Cory Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Nancy Cory Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.4%; this one delivers 26.0%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household income runs about $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%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Nancy Cory Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise), roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Nancy Cory Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 25.5%.

Nancy Cory Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Nancy Cory Elementary's enrollment has declined 5% since 2018, when it stood at 765 (now 728). White enrollment moved from 24% to 13% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 27.3:1 in 2018 to 26.0:1 in 2025.

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