Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5
Wesley Gaines, Paramount, CA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 449
- Teachers (FTE)
- 20.0
- Students per teacher
- 22.4
- Grades
- K to 5
This school's ratio is 3.1 higher than the district figure of 19.3. 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
- 7340 East Jackson St., Paramount, CA 90723
- Phone
- (562)602-8012
- District
- Paramount Unified
- County
- Los Angeles County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 062985004646
School meals
- Free lunch
- 350
- Reduced-price lunch
- 86
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 43697.1% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 242Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
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 Paramount Unified
- Hollydale 794 students
- Captain Raymond Collins 522 students
- Major Lynn Mokler 510 students
- Abraham Lincoln 502 students
- Theodore Roosevelt 491 students
- Howard Tanner 428 students
- Mark Keppel 426 students
- Harry Wirtz Elementary 421 students
- Jefferson Elementary 356 students
- Los Cerritos 341 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.