Nueva Vista Elementary

Nueva Vista Elementary operates as a moderately sized elementary-level community in Bell, California, one of the schools within Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 636 students spanning grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 37% above typical.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Nueva Vista Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Nueva Vista Elementary logs that 97% 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 resource side, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Nueva Vista Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 24.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.8%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household earnings sit near $90,112, 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), Nueva Vista Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Maywood Academy High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Nueva Vista Elementary. On composite proficiency, Nueva Vista Elementary comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 30.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Nueva Vista Elementary has contracted 36%, going from 995 students in 2018 to 636 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 93% to 97% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.9:1 in 2018 to 21.2:1 today.

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