Price (Maude) Elementary

As a sizable elementary school in Downey, California, Price (Maude) Elementary instructs 757 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Downey Unified. That puts it 63% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Downey Unified comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 22,405 students; Price (Maude) Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Price (Maude) Elementary shows that nearly all students (88%) are Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 6% White, 4% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Price (Maude) Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 36.8%; actual is 57.1%, +20.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Price (Maude) Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Griffiths (Gordon) Middle, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Price (Maude) Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.4%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Price (Maude) Elementary has contracted 9%, going from 833 students in 2018 to 757 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 93% to 88%.

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