Unsworth (Edith) Elementary

Located at 9001 Lindsey Ave., in Downey, California, Unsworth (Edith) Elementary is a moderately sized elementary school that teaches 633 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Downey Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Unsworth (Edith) Elementary sits 36% bigger than that benchmark.

Downey Unified comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 22,405 students; Unsworth (Edith) Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Unsworth (Edith) Elementary lists that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 6% White, 4% Asian, 3% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, Unsworth (Edith) Elementary lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Unsworth (Edith) Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 34.8%; Unsworth (Edith) Elementary posts 58.3%, +23.5 points above that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Unsworth (Edith) Elementary is one.

Birney Tech Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Unsworth (Edith) Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.1%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 9%: 694 students in 2018 compared to 633 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment fell from 91% to 86% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 24.8:1 in 2018 to 21.8:1 in 2025.

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