Allen Avenue Elementary

Allen Avenue Elementary is a medium-sized primary school in San Dimas, California, overseen by Bonita Unified. The school instructs 467 students in grades K through 5.

Bonita Unified comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 9,905 students; Allen Avenue Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Allen Avenue Elementary reports that 57% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 20% White, 13% Asian, 8% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Allen Avenue Elementary has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 37% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, Allen Avenue Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.6%, the actual is 57.4%, a residual of -0.2 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household earnings sit near $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Allen Avenue Elementary is one.

Ramona Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Allen Avenue Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Allen Avenue Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 66.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Allen Avenue Elementary has remained close to its prior level, going from 474 students in 2018 to 467 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 26% to 20% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 23.7:1 in 2018 to 21.8:1 today.

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