Alicante Avenue Elementary

Alicante Avenue Elementary is a large K-5 school in Lamont, California, run under Lamont Elementary. The school educates 959 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 106% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Alicante Avenue Elementary is one of 4 schools operated by Lamont Elementary, a district that enrolls 2,561 students overall.

On demographics, Alicante Avenue Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (99%). By comparison, Kern County as a whole is about 57% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Alicante Avenue Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 30.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 21.9%.

In the broader community, Kern County reports that the typical household earns roughly $70,210 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Kern County's 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), Alicante Avenue Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Lamont Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Alicante Avenue Elementary. On composite proficiency, Alicante Avenue Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 20.9%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 19%: 1,182 students in 2018 compared to 959 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 29.6:1 in 2018 to 21.8:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.