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Downey Unified, CA: schools, enrollment and spending
Downey Unified runs 21 public schools with 22,462 students in grades K to 12. Its ratio of 23.7 students per teacher is 1.8 higher than the California figure of 21.9.
At a glance
- Schools
- 21
- Students
- 22,462
- Teachers (FTE)
- 949
- Students per teacher
- 23.7
- CA: 21.9 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 11627 Brookshire Ave., Downey, CA 90241
- Phone
- (562)469-6500
- County
- Los Angeles County
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- Grades offered
- K to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 0611460
- State district ID
- CA-1964451
- Total staff (FTE)
- 2,200
- School counselors (FTE)
- 33.0About 681 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 48.0
Students per teacher compared
This district23.7
California21.9
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (22,216), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $421.0 million
- Federal revenue
- $49.1 million
- State revenue
- $283.2 million
- Local revenue
- $88.8 million
- Total spending
- $433.0 million
- Spending per pupil
- $19,489
- Salaries
- $181.7 million42.0% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $261.0 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 11.7%
- State: 67.3%
- Local: 21.1%
California overall
- Federal: 13.4%
- State: 51.6%
- Local: 35.0%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$19,489
California$17,799
United States$16,826
Schools in Downey Unified
By level: 4 high, 4 middle, 13 elementary. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Alameda Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 744 | 24.0 |
| Carpenter (C. C.) Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 796 | 27.4 |
| Columbus (Christopher) High | High | 9 to 12 | 368 | 16.7 |
| Doty (Wendy Lopour) Middle | Middle | 6 to 8 | 1,304 | 25.1 |
| Downey High | High | 9 to 12 | 4,051 | 24.0 |
| Gallatin Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 788 | 25.4 |
| Gauldin (A.L.) Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 641 | 22.1 |
| Griffiths (Gordon) Middle | Middle | 6 to 8 | 1,264 | 23.4 |
| Imperial Elementary | Elementary | K to 3 | 653 | 23.3 |
| Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 810 | 23.1 |
| Old River Elementary | Elementary | 4 to 5 | 540 | 30.0 |
| Price (Maude) Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 757 | 24.4 |
| Rio Hondo Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 838 | 23.3 |
| Rio San Gabriel Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 747 | 25.8 |
| Stauffer (Mary R.) Middle | Middle | 6 to 8 | 1,329 | 23.7 |
| Sussman (Edward A.) Middle | Middle | 6 to 8 | 1,240 | 21.0 |
| Unsworth (Edith) Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 633 | 21.8 |
| Ward (E. W.) Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 543 | 22.6 |
| Warren (Earl) High | High | 9 to 12 | 3,609 | 24.4 |
| Williams (Spencer V.) Elementary | Elementary | K to 3 | 736 | 23.0 |
| Woodruff Academy | High | 7 to 12 | 14 | 14.0 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Los Angeles County
- Los Angeles Unified 408,026 students
- Long Beach Unified 62,644 students
- Glendale Unified 25,329 students
- Torrance Unified 22,023 students
- Antelope Valley Union High 21,231 students
- William S. Hart Union High 20,493 students
- Pomona Unified 20,475 students
- Montebello Unified 19,195 students
- Palmdale Elementary School District 17,941 students
- ABC Unified 17,612 students
- Compton Unified 16,436 students
- Hacienda la Puente Unified 15,480 students
- Alhambra Unified 14,597 students
- Norwalk-La Mirada Unified 14,577 students
- Burbank Unified 14,168 students
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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.