Thomas Jefferson Elementary

Thomas Jefferson Elementary is one of the medium-sized elementary schools in Bellflower, California, part of Bellflower Unified, with 457 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Bellflower Unified comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 9,573 students; Thomas Jefferson Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Thomas Jefferson Elementary shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 66%. Beyond that, the school reports 15% Black, 8% Asian, 5% multiracial, 5% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Thomas Jefferson Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 87% of students at Thomas Jefferson Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Thomas Jefferson Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.5%; this one delivers 37.7%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) shows that median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Thomas Jefferson Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Mayfair High, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Thomas Jefferson Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 37.9%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Thomas Jefferson Elementary has ticked down 18%, going from 557 students in 2018 to 457 in 2025.

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