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What's one thing Unsworth (Edith) Elementary gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
633
Elementary
DISTRICT 710 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DOWNEY UNIFIED·NCES 061146003196
Unsworth (Edith) Elementary
9001 Lindsey Ave., Downey, CA 90240 · (562) 904-3576 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL633 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
21.8:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 24.3:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
475 students
DISTRICT 78% · 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 | 120 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 82 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 97 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 105 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 118 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 111 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (120) is 8% larger than its 5th grade class (111).
Student demographics
26%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 21% · 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
60.7%
CA avg 49.1% . +7.7pp since 2014
Math
58.0%
CA avg 37.7% . +7.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 32.2% | 28.5% | 18.6% | 20.7% |
| Math | 32.7% | 25.3% | 25.6% | 16.4% |
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 | 60.7% | 58.0% |
| 2023-24 | 59.8% | 56.8% |
| 2022-23 | 58.2% | 56.6% |
| 2021-22 | 62.1% | 50.8% |
| 2018-19 | 65.5% | 67.9% |
| 2017-18 | 64.2% | 63.1% |
| 2016-17 | 54.9% | 56.1% |
| 2015-16 | 61.0% | 58.0% |
| 2014-15 | 53.0% | 51.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
58.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.6%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+23.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 36% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 23 points, placing it in California's top 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 Unsworth (Edith) Elementary
Unsworth (Edith) Elementary's state test result (58.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsworth (Edith) Elementary this school | 633 | 75.0% | 58.9% |
| Franklin (Benjamin) Elementary Anaheim | 604 | 75.2% | 34.7% |
| Imperial Elementary Downey | 653 | 75.7% | 48.3% |
| Thurgood Marshall Elementary Oxnard | 702 | 74.8% | 36.5% |
| Rice (Lilian J.) Elementary Chula Vista | 613 | 74.6% | 34.2% |
| Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary Hanford | 624 | 78.7% | 54.3% |
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 Unsworth (Edith) Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.9% | #1,175 of 5,151 | #270 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #1,149 of 5,172 ▼ 3 | #272 of 1,129 ▼ 15 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.7% | #1,280 of 5,172 ▼ 23 | #286 of 1,129 ▼ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.9pp | #2,307 of 5,116 | #593 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 633 | #1,136 of 5,915 | #214 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.8:1 | #2,065 of 5,352 | #582 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.6% | #4,155 of 5,354 | #789 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.0% | #2,614 of 5,625 | #802 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.8% | #2,840 of 3,837 | #765 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
633
-70 (-10%) vs 2020
+1% since 2000-01, when it was 629
Student : Teacher
21.8:1
was 25.1:1
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 | 633 | 29 | 21.8:1 | 75% (475) |
| 2023-24 | 673 | 28 | 24.0:1 | 68% (457) |
| 2022-23 | 645 | 28 | 23.0:1 | 67% (433) |
| 2020-21 | 703 | 28 | 25.1:1 | 62% (433) |
| 2017-18 | 694 | 28 | 24.8:1 | 73% (509) |
| 2015-16 | 684 | 28 | 24.4:1 | 70% (479) |
| 2010-11 | 590 | N/A | N/A | 66% (388) |
| 2000-01 | 629 | 31 | 20.3:1 | 59% (372) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Unsworth (Edith) Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (694 to 633); teachers up 4% (28 to 29).
About Unsworth (Edith) Elementary
Unsworth (Edith) Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school that serves part of Downey, California. It had 633 students in 2024-25, spanning kindergarten through 5. Elementary schools in California have about 465 students on average; enrollment here is 36% higher.
Downey Unified has a total of 21 schools and 22,405 students, Unsworth (Edith) Elementary among them.
Hispanic students account for 86% of the school's enrollment. The rest of enrollment is 6% White, 4% Asian, and 3% Black. Among all residents of Los Angeles County, the Hispanic share is about 48%. A diversity index of 26% means there is a 26% chance two randomly chosen students at Unsworth (Edith) Elementary are from different groups.
For every teacher at Unsworth (Edith) Elementary, there are about 21.8 students; the school has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in California is about 22.3:1. There are 475 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 75% of enrollment.
Compared with California schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Unsworth (Edith) Elementary does better than predicted by 23.3 points. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 58.9%; the prediction is 35.6%.
Los Angeles County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $90,112 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Public schools in Los Angeles County number 2,244, with about 1,265,907 students.
Unsworth (Edith) Elementary is about 0.6 miles from Birney Tech Academy, its nearest public school. Unsworth (Edith) Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Unsworth (Edith) Elementary at 1st of 9.
NCES assigns Unsworth (Edith) Elementary the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 703 to 633, a 10% decline. Federal data show the ratio falling from 25.1:1 to 21.8:1.
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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 Downey Unified
- Downey HighHigh · 4,051 students
- Warren (Earl) HighHigh · 3,609 students
- Stauffer (Mary R.) MiddleMiddle · 1,329 students
- Doty (Wendy Lopour) MiddleMiddle · 1,304 students
- Griffiths (Gordon) MiddleMiddle · 1,264 students
- Sussman (Edward A.) MiddleMiddle · 1,240 students
Other schools in Downey
- Downey HighHigh · 4,051 students
- Warren (Earl) HighHigh · 3,609 students
- Stauffer (Mary R.) MiddleMiddle · 1,329 students
- Doty (Wendy Lopour) MiddleMiddle · 1,304 students
- Griffiths (Gordon) MiddleMiddle · 1,264 students
- Sussman (Edward A.) MiddleMiddle · 1,240 students
Nearby schools
- Birney Tech Academy0.6 mi · 344
- Gallatin Elementary0.6 mi · 788
- Magee Academy of Arts & Sciences0.7 mi · 376
- STEAM Academy @ Burke0.8 mi · 534
- Doty (Wendy Lopour) Middle1.0 mi · 1,304
- Price (Maude) Elementary1.2 mi · 757
Frequently asked questions
About Unsworth (Edith) ElementaryHow large is Unsworth (Edith) Elementary?
Unsworth (Edith) Elementary enrolls approximately 633 students in grades KG-05.
Is Unsworth (Edith) Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Unsworth (Edith) Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Unsworth (Edith) Elementary have?
Unsworth (Edith) Elementary employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Unsworth (Edith) Elementary?
Student demographics at Unsworth (Edith) Elementary are roughly 6% White, 86% Hispanic, 3% Black, 4% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Unsworth (Edith) Elementary?
Unsworth (Edith) Elementary is overseen by Downey Unified in Los Angeles County.
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