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Thompson ElementaryPublicEl Monte, CAGrades TK-821 students

Thompson Elementary: A special education center. No Scope Score publishes here.

A Scope Score ranks schools a family can choose between. At Thompson, students are placed here by an IEP team, not by address and not by lottery — so a comparative rank would measure something a family's choice never entered. We show what California reports and hold the rank.

special education center

no score · no band · no rank — enrollment assigned, not chosen

21 students · placed by an IEP team

SchoolScope has no scored record for this school, so there is nothing here to rank either way. Why we withhold a score →

Thompson Elementary is a special education center in El Monte, California. SchoolScope publishes no Scope Score, performance band, archetype or ranking for schools where enrollment is assigned rather than chosen.

SchoolScope holds no scored record for Thompson this year — no Scope Score, band or rank — so there is no picture to draw beyond the figures on this page.

Worth a conversation

If a placement here is part of a child's IEP, this page is background, not the decision — the IEP team meeting is where fit actually gets decided.

  • Ask how this placement was determined, and what the annual IEP review looks at.
  • Ask what related services — speech, occupational therapy, counseling — are provided on site.
  • Ask how and when a return to a less-restrictive setting gets reconsidered.
The people teaching · CDE staffing 2024–25

About 7 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher7 · district 21
Teaching staff3 teachers
Avg. experience10.3 years
Fully credentialed50%
PrincipalGerardo Yepez
What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $23,811 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

$107 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.

The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $23,811, CA average $14,491$23,811 · spent at this school
Federal share$107 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$27,341 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 64%Instruction support 11%Student services 11%Administration 5%Buildings & maintenance 9%

District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.

ShowHide the district's spending year by year
district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$17,735 per pupil
2019$16,537 per pupil
2018$16,558 per pupil
2017$15,499 per pupil
2016$14,658 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

Who is enrolled

Four in five of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

At 21 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California elementary school (≈480).

Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.

Hispanic or Latino85.7% · district 79.5% · CA 56.1%
Asian9.5% · district 17.8% · CA 10.2%
Other4.8% · district 1.3% · CA 9.0%
GenderFemale 38.1% · Male 61.9%
Free or reduced lunch85.7% · CA 64%

Contact

PrincipalGerardo Yepez
GradesTK-8
Enrollment21 students
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Data source: California Department of Education. SchoolScope publishes no Scope Score, band or rank for this school for 2025 — enrollment, staffing, and finance figures above are CDE's own current data. Data updated 2026-09-27.methodology · data updates · report issue

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