Winter Gardens Elementary

Winter Gardens Elementary is an elementary school of reasonably sized scale in Los Angeles, California, one of the schools within Montebello Unified, enrolling 399 students in grades K through 5.

Montebello Unified comprises 29 schools with combined enrollment of 19,149 students; Winter Gardens Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Winter Gardens Elementary records that nearly all students (97%) are Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.9:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Winter Gardens Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.0%, the actual is 19.9%, a residual of -6.2 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that median household income runs about $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Winter Gardens Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Kirby Dorothy Camp, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Winter Gardens Elementary at 4th of 4; the average score across the group is 34.2%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Winter Gardens Elementary's enrollment has declined 30% since 2018, when it stood at 566 (now 399). Class-load math has tightened: from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 in 2025.

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