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Out of 8,509 students enrolled in East Whittier City Elementary School District, 9.8 percent were in first-grade during the 2018-2019 school year, according to the California Department of Education.

The grade with the highest concentration of students was eighth-grade with 12.4 percent of all students.

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	924	10.9
First	831	9.8
Second	896	10.5
Third	941	11.1
Fourth	904	10.6
Fifth	984	11.6
Sixth	960	11.3
Seventh	1,016	11.9
Eighth	1,053	12.4