Wright Elementary

Wright Elementary operates as a mid-sized K-5 school in El Monte, California, run under El Monte City. Current enrollment sits at 562 students spanning grades K through 8. That puts it 21% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Wright Elementary is one of 15 schools operated by El Monte City, a district that serves 6,913 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Wright Elementary shows that 75% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 23% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Wright Elementary has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Wright Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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.

With demographic context factored in, Wright Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.3%; this one delivers 41.3%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household earnings sit near $90,112, 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), Wright Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Legore Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Wright Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.6%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 29%: 792 students in 2018 compared to 562 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.7:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 in 2025.

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