Webster Elementary

Webster Elementary, a compact K-5 school in Pasadena, California, one of the schools within Pasadena Unified, teaches 277 students, covering grades K through 5. That puts it 40% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Pasadena Unified runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 13,639 students. Webster Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Webster Elementary shows that 43% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 41% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Black, 4% Asian. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Webster Elementary has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Webster Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Webster Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.1%, the actual is 41.9%, a residual of +7.8 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household earnings sit near $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Webster 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 Marshall Fundamental, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Webster Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Webster Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 42.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Webster Elementary has declined 30%, going from 395 students in 2018 to 277 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.2:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 today.

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