William Anderson Elementary

William Anderson Elementary is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in Lawndale, California, operated by Lawndale Elementary, educateing 572 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so William Anderson Elementary sits 23% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Lawndale Elementary, which oversees 8 schools and 4,314 students, William Anderson Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, William Anderson Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 79% of enrollment. Other groups include 9% Asian, 6% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, William Anderson Elementary records 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting William Anderson Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 90% of students at William Anderson Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, William Anderson 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 26.1%; William Anderson Elementary posts 48.7%, +22.6 points above that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that 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%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), William Anderson Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Will Rogers Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around William Anderson Elementary. On composite proficiency, William Anderson Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 42.1%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 22%: 730 students in 2018 compared to 572 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 74% to 79% over that span.

Inside the community feed, the feed for William Anderson Elementary typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.