NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Bellflower, CA

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11 public K-12 schools in Bellflower from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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11
Schools
5,305
Students
38.7/100
Avg Resource Index
19.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Bellflower has more public-school enrollment than 58% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Bellflower High enrolls 37.6% of Bellflower's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

5 of Bellflower's 11 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

High measured need meets a thin staffing ratio

Bellflower's reporting schools show 70.1% free-lunch eligibility across measured enrollment, alongside an average 19.5:1 student-teacher ratio. These are separate constraints: one describes the economic context of enrolled students and the other compares student and teacher headcounts. The 47-point gap between Somerset High and Thomas Jefferson Elementary is therefore more useful than the city mean alone. A school with a similar ratio may still report different counselor access, attendance, or gifted-program availability, so open the campus records before drawing conclusions about student support.

City enrollment
Top 42%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
40th percentile
Teacher staffing
18th percentile

Bellflower High accounts for 37.6% of all Bellflower public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Bellflower-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Bellflower school enrollment varies 222× across entities

Bellflower school enrollment ranges from 9 students (lowest) to 1,997 students (highest), a spread of 1,988 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Bellflower reports 70.1% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Bellflower student-teacher ratio is 19.5:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Somerset High 68
2. Downey Unified Virtual Acad at Lynn L. Pace Ed Center 60
3. Bellflower Alternative Education Center 59
4. Albert Baxter Elementary 41
5. Bellflower High 40
6. Ernie Pyle Elementary 38
7. Las Flores Home Education Independent Study Academy 30
8. Washington Elementary 24
9. Frank E. Woodruff Elementary 24
10. Thomas Jefferson Elementary 21
11. Ramona Elementary 21

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Bellflower

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Thomas Jefferson Elementary 53.0/100
  2. 2 Las Flores Home Education Independent Study Academy 51.5/100
  3. 3 Ernie Pyle Elementary 46.1/100
  4. 4 Somerset High 43.9/100
  5. 5 Frank E. Woodruff Elementary 40.2/100

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Which Bellflower school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Somerset High has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Bellflower schools in this federal-data comparison at 68/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Bellflower, CA? ▼

Bellflower has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,305 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 19.5:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.