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Allison Elementary
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 24% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Allison Elementary
As a mid-tier elementary campus in Pomona, California, Allison Elementary teaches 427 students from grades K through 6, run under Pomona Unified.
Pomona Unified runs 37 schools in total, collectively educating 20,422 students. Allison Elementary is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Allison Elementary records that nearly all students (86%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 7% Black, 4% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Allison Elementary has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 94% of students at Allison Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Allison Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.5%; this one delivers 21.3%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records that median household earnings sit near $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Allison Elementary is one.
Nearest neighbor: Barfield Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Allison Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 26.2%.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Allison Elementary has rose 41%, going from 303 students in 2018 to 427 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged down from 91% to 86%.
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