Rio San Gabriel Elementary

Rio San Gabriel Elementary, a high-enrollment K-5 school in Downey, California, overseen by Downey Unified, instructs 747 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 61% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Downey Unified runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 22,405 students. Rio San Gabriel Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Rio San Gabriel Elementary shows that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 8% White, 3% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, Rio San Gabriel Elementary reports 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rio San Gabriel Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.2%, the actual is 49.6%, a residual of +13.5 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Rio San Gabriel Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Doty (Wendy Lopour) Middle, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Rio San Gabriel Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 48.7%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 6%: 796 students in 2018 compared to 747 in 2025.

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