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What's the most underrated thing about Suva Elementary that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
562
Elementary
DISTRICT 503 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTEBELLO UNIFIED·NCES 062547003809
Suva Elementary
6740 East Suva St., Bell Gardens, CA 90201 · (562) 927-1827 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL562 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 6% of California public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
20.4:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.9:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
460 students
DISTRICT 86% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 96 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 93 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 84 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 89 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 103 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 97 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (96) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (97).
Student demographics
3%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 8% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
20.8%
CA avg 49.1% . -9.2pp since 2014
Math
17.9%
CA avg 37.7% . +1.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 9 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 2 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 4.4% | 16.4% | 19.3% | 59.9% |
| Math | 4.4% | 13.5% | 29.6% | 52.5% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 20.8% | 17.9% |
| 2023-24 | 18.9% | 14.8% |
| 2022-23 | 16.2% | 17.0% |
| 2021-22 | 21.9% | 16.3% |
| 2020-21 | 19.1% | 11.1% |
| 2018-19 | 33.4% | 24.8% |
| 2017-18 | 26.0% | 21.2% |
| 2016-17 | 28.7% | 20.0% |
| 2015-16 | 31.0% | 14.0% |
| 2014-15 | 30.0% | 16.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
18.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.6%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Suva Elementary
Suva Elementary's state test result (18.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suva Elementary this school | 562 | 81.9% | 18.1% |
| Arroyo Seco Academy Greenfield | 571 | 83.5% | 17.5% |
| Wilson Elementary Dinuba | 545 | 80.7% | 44.7% |
| Roosevelt Elementary Salinas | 560 | 81.1% | 22.2% |
| Lamont Elementary Lamont | 586 | 79.7% | 19.6% |
| KIPP Iluminar Academy Los Angeles | 593 | 79.9% | N/A |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Suva Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.1% | #4,731 of 5,151 | #1,094 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.9% | #4,493 of 5,172 ▲ 199 | #1,073 of 1,129 ▲ 19 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 20.8% | #4,796 of 5,172 ▲ 16 | #1,098 of 1,129 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.3pp | #3,249 of 5,116 | #796 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 562 | #1,738 of 5,915 | #344 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.4:1 | #1,118 of 5,352 | #344 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 3.2% | #5,286 of 5,354 | #1,192 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.9% | #1,990 of 5,625 | #654 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -38.0% | #198 of 3,837 | #99 of 947 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
562
-166 (-23%) vs 2020
-48% since 1990-91, when it was 1,071
Student : Teacher
20.4:1
was 22.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 562 | 27.6 | 20.4:1 | 82% (460) |
| 2023-24 | 595 | 33.3 | 17.9:1 | 76% (451) |
| 2022-23 | 617 | 32.4 | 19.1:1 | 77% (477) |
| 2020-21 | 728 | 33 | 22.1:1 | 86% (629) |
| 2017-18 | 907 | 32.5 | 27.9:1 | 81% (733) |
| 2015-16 | 1,018 | 32 | 31.8:1 | 91% (924) |
| 2010-11 | 938 | N/A | N/A | 72% (674) |
| 2000-01 | 1,008 | 50 | 20.2:1 | 97% (977) |
| 1990-91 | 1,071 | 43 | 24.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Suva Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 38% (907 to 562); teachers down 15% (32.5 to 27.6).
About Suva Elementary
Suva Elementary is an elementary school in Bell Gardens, California, and it is part of Montebello Unified. A federal count lists 562 students at the school, in kindergarten through 5. An average school in this group (elementary schools in California) has about 465 students.
Montebello Unified (29 schools, 19,149 students) runs Suva Elementary.
Hispanic students make up 98% of enrollment at Suva Elementary. For comparison, the population of Los Angeles County is roughly 48% Hispanic. Suva Elementary's diversity index is 3%, against a US figure of 70%.
The ratio of students to teachers is 20.4:1, with 27.6 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. That is 1.9 students per teacher below the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 82%. The gap from the 70% average for public schools in Los Angeles County is 12 points.
The allk12 Grade for Suva Elementary is D. Compared with California public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 6% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On BeatsExpectations, Suva Elementary is 13.5 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of California schools.
Census Bureau estimates for Los Angeles County show that the median household income is $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Suva Elementary is one of 2,244 public schools in the county.
Nearby, Suva Intermediate is about 0.1 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Suva Elementary ranks 9th of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 18.1% against a local average of 36.1%.
Suva Elementary falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 166 fewer students in 2024-25. The number of students per teacher fell from 22.1 to 20.4 over 4 years.
Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Los Angeles County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
9,808,667
Census ACS
Median income
$90,112
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
2,244
1,265,907 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Montebello Unified
- Schurr HighHigh · 2,121 students
- Bell Gardens HighHigh · 2,046 students
- Montebello HighHigh · 1,907 students
- Bell Gardens IntermediateMiddle · 790 students
- Greenwood ElementaryElementary · 746 students
- Montebello IntermediateMiddle · 733 students
Other schools in Bell Gardens
- Bell Gardens HighHigh · 2,046 students
- Bell Gardens IntermediateMiddle · 790 students
- Cesar E. Chavez ElementaryElementary · 702 students
- Suva IntermediateMiddle · 650 students
- Bell Gardens ElementaryElementary · 624 students
- Garfield ElementaryElementary · 455 students
Nearby schools
- Suva Intermediate0.1 mi · 650
- Garfield Elementary0.6 mi · 455
- Cesar E. Chavez Elementary0.8 mi · 702
- Price (Maude) Elementary0.9 mi · 757
- Griffiths (Gordon) Middle0.9 mi · 1,264
- Bell Gardens High0.9 mi · 2,046
Frequently asked questions
About Suva ElementaryHow many students attend Suva Elementary?
Suva Elementary enrolls approximately 562 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Suva Elementary serve?
Suva Elementary serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Suva Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Suva Elementary is approximately 20.4:1 (28 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Suva Elementary?
At Suva Elementary, the student body is approximately 1% White, 98% Hispanic, 0% Asian.
Is Suva Elementary public or private?
Suva Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Montebello Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.