Ramona Elementary School
9351 Laurel Street.
Bellflower, CA 90706
562-804-6532

Bonnie Carter, Principal

Ramona Elementary School is located in Bellflower. The facilities include 35 regular education classrooms, a multipurpose room (which also serves as the school cafeteria), a library, two computer labs, a psychologist's office, two Resource Specialist rooms, and a Speech and Language room. The district operates a before and after-school care class on the Ramona campus.

Ramona serves 788 students. The attendance rate at the school was 95.80 percent during the prior school year. Student enrollment includes a variety of ethnic backgrounds: Asian 3.2 percent, Pacific Islander .5 percent, Filipino four percent, Hispanic 66.9 percent, African-American 12 percent, Caucasian 9.2 percent, and multiple or other 4.2 percent.

Ramona has 39 regular education teachers, three special education teachers, an assistant principal, and a principal. Other personnel serving the school include a psychologist, two health assistants, a guidance intern, a case manager, and a speech and language teacher. One hundred percent of our teaching staff possess appropriate California teaching credentials.

Staff development activities are essential for maintaining a quality education program for students; therefore, the district provided more than 300 hours of staff development activities for teachers and classified staff. The emphasis of the staff development program in this school year was Assessment, Standards, and Literacy. One hundred percent of the teachers at our school took advantage of inside and outside staff development for their own professional growth.

District schools also participate in a State School Site Review (SSR) once every four years. Ramona's review was conducted in the 2002-2003 school year.