Schools · Norwalk
Norwalk, CA schools
Norwalk’s public schools score well above California’s averages: 65% of students are proficient in reading against 48.5% statewide, and 91% of high schoolers graduate on time against 87.6%. Kids attend one of 15 elementary schools through grade 5, then one of 4 middle schools and Norwalk High or John H. Glenn High.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
A−
Norwalk’s School Grade: A-
The public schools Norwalk’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 75% of California’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
A-Test scoresB-Graduation
California school districts we grade (1,139)Better than 75%
Lower resultsHigher results
California towns with similar household incomes (565)Better than 81%
High confidence. Built on 2,724 tested students and a graduating class of 2,773; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on California’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of California only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in California with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path
Where Norwalk kids go to school
Grades K–5
15 elementary schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School DistrictGrades 6–8
4 middle schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School DistrictGrades 9–12
BNorwalk High or B+John H. Glenn High
Depends on your address Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School DistrictBased on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
Well above the state in reading
Reading (Whittier Union High)65%
State average 48.5%
Reading (grades K–12, Norwalk-La Mirada Unified)61%
State average 48.5%
Math (Whittier Union High)42%
State average 33.4%
Math (grades K–12, Norwalk-La Mirada Unified)28%
State average 33.4%
Graduation · class of 2020
91% graduate on time
Graduation rate
91%
CA: 87.6%
Graduating class
2,773
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
Districts
Three districts serve Norwalk
Whittier Union High School DistrictGrades 9–12 · 7 schools · 9,798 students
$23,421 per studentCA $21,206A-Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School DistrictGrades K–12 · 26 schools · 14,560 students
$20,749 per studentCA $21,206B+Little Lake City Elementary School DistrictGrades K–8 · 9 schools · 3,535 students
$23,106 per studentCA $21,206Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 28 schools in Norwalk
Showing 1–28 of 28 schools
John Dolland ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 586 students
PublicJulia B. Morrison ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 548 students
PublicThomas B. Moffitt ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 509 students
PublicLoretta Lampton ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 406 students
PublicStudebaker ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 394 students
PublicAnna M. Glazier ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 388 students
PublicD. D. Johnston ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 361 students
PublicWilliam W. Orr ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 353 students
PublicEarl E. Edmondson ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 352 students
PublicNew River ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 319 students
PublicJohn H. Nuffer ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 316 students
CPublicLakeland ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 315 students
PublicPaddison ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 296 students
PublicCresson ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 243 students
PublicArturo Sanchez ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 239 students
PublicLos Alisos MiddleMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 920 students
PublicCorvallis MiddleMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 663 students
PublicLakeside MiddleMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 509 students
PublicNettie L. Waite MiddleMiddle · Grades 6–8 · 462 students
PublicNorwalk HighHigh · Grades 9–12 · 2,075 students
BPublicJohn H. Glenn HighHigh · Grades 9–12 · 882 students
B+PublicRamona Head Start/State PreschoolGrades M
PublicJOYLAND PRESCHOOL
PrivateLUTEC
PrivateNEW HARVEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
PrivateST JOHN OF GOD SCHOOL
PrivateST LINUS SCHOOL
PrivateTRINITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
PrivateSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.