Sundown Elementary

Set in Lancaster, California, Sundown Elementary is a roomy primary school, one of the schools within Westside Union Elementary. It works with 941 students across grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 102% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Westside Union Elementary comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 9,078 students; Sundown Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Sundown Elementary shows that 53% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 19% Black, 18% White, 8% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Sundown Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 44.3%; actual is 23.2%, a gap of -21.1 points.

Around the school, Los Angeles County reports that 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%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Sundown Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Academies of the Antelope Valley, around 1.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sundown Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 29.4%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sundown Elementary has fell 4%, going from 981 students in 2018 to 941 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 31% to 18% across the same window.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.