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What's the one class at Winter Gardens Elementary every student should take?
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Enrollment
399
Elementary
DISTRICT 503 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTEBELLO UNIFIED·NCES 062547003814
Winter Gardens Elementary
1277 South Clela Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90022 · (323) 268-0477 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL399 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 13% of California public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.9:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.9:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
358 students
DISTRICT 86% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 59 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 54 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (69).
Student demographics
4%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 8% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
17.2%
CA avg 49.1% . -2.8pp since 2014
Math
15.1%
CA avg 37.7% . +0.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 17 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 4.7% | 12.6% | 19.1% | 63.7% |
| Math | 3.8% | 11.3% | 34.4% | 50.5% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 17.2% | 15.1% |
| 2023-24 | 21.0% | 18.8% |
| 2022-23 | 20.7% | 17.8% |
| 2021-22 | 15.6% | 8.9% |
| 2020-21 | 15.6% | 8.7% |
| 2018-19 | 29.1% | 26.6% |
| 2017-18 | 24.9% | 19.4% |
| 2016-17 | 25.1% | 17.3% |
| 2015-16 | 31.0% | 22.0% |
| 2014-15 | 20.0% | 15.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
18.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
27.0%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Winter Gardens Elementary
Winter Gardens Elementary's state test result (18.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winter Gardens Elementary this school | 399 | 89.7% | 18.0% |
| Lincoln Elementary El Centro | 399 | 89.0% | 32.5% |
| John F. Kennedy Elementary Indio | 390 | 91.3% | 11.6% |
| Equitas Academy Charter Los Angeles | 427 | 90.4% | N/A |
| Arts In Action Community Charter Los Angeles | 404 | 91.3% | N/A |
| Starlight Elementary Watsonville | 383 | 91.6% | 22.5% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Winter Gardens Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.0% | #4,742 of 5,151 | #1,097 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.1% | #4,741 of 5,172 ▼ 438 | #1,102 of 1,129 ▼ 70 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 17.2% | #4,981 of 5,172 ▼ 327 | #1,118 of 1,129 ▼ 44 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.9pp | #2,002 of 5,116 | #539 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 399 | #3,702 of 5,915 | #791 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.9:1 | #879 of 5,352 | #274 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 4.4% | #5,226 of 5,354 | #1,170 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.7% | #1,133 of 5,625 | #456 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.5% | #580 of 3,837 | #247 of 947 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
399
-112 (-22%) vs 2020
-39% since 1990-91, when it was 649
Student : Teacher
19.9:1
was 21.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 399 | 20.1 | 19.9:1 | 90% (358) |
| 2023-24 | 416 | 25.8 | 16.1:1 | 78% (326) |
| 2022-23 | 434 | 24.8 | 17.5:1 | 80% (348) |
| 2020-21 | 511 | 24 | 21.3:1 | 86% (440) |
| 2017-18 | 566 | 23.5 | 24.1:1 | 86% (485) |
| 2015-16 | 640 | 26 | 24.6:1 | 87% (555) |
| 2010-11 | 733 | N/A | N/A | 72% (526) |
| 2000-01 | 717 | 37 | 19.4:1 | 99% (708) |
| 1990-91 | 649 | 22 | 29.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Winter Gardens Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 30% (566 to 399); teachers down 15% (23.5 to 20.1).
About Winter Gardens Elementary
Students in Los Angeles, California, attend Winter Gardens Elementary, a mid-sized elementary school. Total enrollment is 399 students, and the grades served are kindergarten through 5.
The district for Winter Gardens Elementary is Montebello Unified, with 29 schools and 19,149 students.
Winter Gardens Elementary is 97% Hispanic by enrollment. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Los Angeles County's population at about 48%. The diversity index for Winter Gardens Elementary is 4%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Winter Gardens Elementary has 20.1 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.9:1. The school's 19.9:1 compares with an average of 22.3:1 for elementary schools in California. The school has 90% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 70% average for public schools in Los Angeles County is 20 points.
Among California public elementary schools, Winter Gardens Elementary outscored 13%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 18.0%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 27.0%.
Census data for Los Angeles County show the median household earns about $90,112 a year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Counting Winter Gardens Elementary, Los Angeles County has 2,244 public schools.
Winter Gardens Elementary's nearest public school is Kirby Dorothy Camp (about 0.5 miles). Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 35.3%; Winter Gardens Elementary's is 18.0%, ranking 4th of 4.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment decreased by 22% across 4 years, from 511 in 2020-21 to 399 in 2024-25. The ratio was 21.3:1 in 2020-21 and 19.9:1 in 2024-25.
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Los Angeles County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
9,808,667
Census ACS
Median income
$90,112
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
2,244
1,265,907 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Montebello Unified
- Schurr HighHigh · 2,121 students
- Bell Gardens HighHigh · 2,046 students
- Montebello HighHigh · 1,907 students
- Bell Gardens IntermediateMiddle · 790 students
- Greenwood ElementaryElementary · 746 students
- Montebello IntermediateMiddle · 733 students
Other schools in Los Angeles
- Venice Senior HighHigh · 2,293 students
- James A. Garfield Senior HighHigh · 2,237 students
- Alexander Hamilton Senior HighHigh · 2,055 students
- Eagle Rock HighHigh · 2,031 students
- John C. Fremont Senior HighHigh · 1,889 students
- John Marshall Senior HighHigh · 1,842 students
Other Winter Gardens Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Winter Gardens Elementary. Winter Gardens Elementary is the largest of the 2.
- Winter Gardens ElementaryLakeside, CA · 269 students
Nearby schools
- Kirby Dorothy Camp0.5 mi · 64
- Arts in Action Community Middle0.6 mi · 258
- Ford Boulevard Elementary0.6 mi · 722
- KIPP Raices Academy0.6 mi · 619
- Bandini Elementary0.8 mi · 260
- James A. Garfield Senior High0.8 mi · 2,237
Frequently asked questions
About Winter Gardens ElementaryHow large is Winter Gardens Elementary?
Winter Gardens Elementary enrolls approximately 399 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Winter Gardens Elementary serve?
Winter Gardens Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Winter Gardens Elementary?
Approximately 19.9:1 students per teacher at Winter Gardens Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Winter Gardens Elementary?
Student demographics at Winter Gardens Elementary are roughly 0% White, 97% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Winter Gardens Elementary in?
Winter Gardens Elementary is part of Montebello Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.