LAX Leader

Out of 25,359 students enrolled in Montebello Unified School District, 9.2 percent were in 12th-grade during the 2018-2019 school year, according to the California Department of Education.

According to numbers provided by the National Center for Education Services, California is expected to see a decrease of three percent in public elementary and secondary school enrollment from 2017-2029. The state expected to see the largest drop in enrollment is New Mexico with a projected 12 percent decrease, while Washington D.C. is projected to see a 14 percent increase over the same time period.

In a survey conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, seven percent of respondents said large class sizes was the biggest issue facing California's K-12 schools. In the same survey, 50 percent of the respondents said they didn’t view the financial resources their local public school was getting as adequate.

Grade	Number of students	Total %
Kindergarten	1,987	7.8
First	1,738	6.9
Second	1,723	6.8
Third	1,820	7.2
Fourth	1,738	6.9
Fifth	1,796	7.1
Sixth	1,840	7.3
Seventh	2,024	8
Eighth	2,049	8.1
Ninth	2,100	8.3
10th	2,064	8.1
11th	2,159	8.5
12th	2,321	9.2