Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5
Gauldin (A.L.) Elementary, Downey, CA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 641
- Teachers (FTE)
- 29.0
- Students per teacher
- 22.1
- Grades
- K to 5
This school's ratio is 1.6 lower than the district figure of 23.7. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 9724 Spry St., Downey, CA 90242
- Phone
- (562)904-3582
- District
- Downey Unified
- County
- Los Angeles County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 061146001267
School meals
- Free lunch
- 498
- Reduced-price lunch
- 75
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 57389.4% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 279Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in Downey Unified
- Rio Hondo Elementary 838 students
- Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary 810 students
- Carpenter (C. C.) Elementary 796 students
- Gallatin Elementary 788 students
- Price (Maude) Elementary 757 students
- Rio San Gabriel Elementary 747 students
- Alameda Elementary 744 students
- Williams (Spencer V.) Elementary 736 students
- Imperial Elementary 653 students
- Unsworth (Edith) Elementary 633 students
- Ward (E. W.) Elementary 543 students
- Old River Elementary 540 students
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.