Thurgood Marshall Elementary

Thurgood Marshall Elementary operates as a mid-sized elementary school in Lynwood, California, overseen by Lynwood Unified. Current enrollment sits at 511 students spanning grades K through 6.

Within Lynwood Unified, which oversees 17 schools and 10,851 students, Thurgood Marshall Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Thurgood Marshall Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%). The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Thurgood Marshall Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.0%, the actual is 26.3%, a residual of +2.3 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) shows 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%. Thurgood Marshall Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Cesar Chavez Middle, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Thurgood Marshall Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 30.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Thurgood Marshall Elementary has shrank 16%, going from 610 students in 2018 to 511 in 2025.

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