Almond Elementary

Located at 550 Almond Ave., in Los Altos, California, Almond Elementary is a cozy K-5 school that serves 354 students (grades K through 6), one of the schools within Los Altos Elementary. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Almond Elementary sits 24% below that benchmark.

Almond Elementary is one of 9 schools operated by Los Altos Elementary, a district that enrolls 3,368 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Almond Elementary logs that the largest single group is Asian at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 28% White, 17% Hispanic, 16% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Almond Elementary has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Almond Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 12% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Santa Clara County's rate of about 37%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Almond Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.6%, the actual is 82.2%, a residual of +9.6 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Santa Clara County shows the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Santa Clara County's 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), Almond Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Los Altos High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Almond Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 65.2%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 30%: 508 students in 2018 compared to 354 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 36% to 28% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.2:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 today.

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