New River Elementary

New River Elementary, a tight-knit primary school in Norwalk, California, operated by Norwalk-La Mirada Unified, teaches 319 students, covering grades K through 5. That puts it 31% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Norwalk-La Mirada Unified comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 14,560 students; New River Elementary is among them.

Demographically, New River Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (85%). Other groups include 4% Asian, 3% Black, 3% multiracial, 3% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, New River Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.2%.

Across the wider county, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), New River Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Corvallis Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, New River Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.3%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at New River Elementary has fell 18%, going from 391 students in 2018 to 319 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share shrank from 90% to 85%. Class-load math has fell: from 29.0:1 in 2018 to 24.2:1 in 2025.

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