Willow Elementary

As a cozy elementary-level community in Lakewood, California, Willow Elementary caters to 346 students from grades K through 6, operated by ABC Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Willow Elementary sits 26% below that benchmark.

Within ABC Unified, which oversees 30 schools and 17,570 students, Willow Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Willow Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 72% of enrollment; the rest looks like 10% Asian, 8% multiracial, 6% Black, 3% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Willow Elementary has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Willow Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 80% of students at Willow Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Willow Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 31.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.8%.

Around the school, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Willow Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Haskell (Pliny Fisk) Middle, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Willow Elementary. On composite proficiency, Willow Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 22%: 445 students in 2018 compared to 346 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 78% to 72%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 26.2:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 in 2025.

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