Alpine Elementary

Alpine Elementary operates as a medium-sized elementary-level community in Littlerock, California, operated by Keppel Union Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 591 students spanning grades K through 8. That puts it 27% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Keppel Union Elementary, which oversees 6 schools and 2,784 students, Alpine Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Alpine Elementary reports that nearly all students (90%) are Hispanic. The remainder looks like 7% White, 3% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Alpine Elementary shows 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 26.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 65% of students at Alpine Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Alpine Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 40.9%; this one comes in at 20.3%, -20.6 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Alpine Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Keppel Academy, around 1.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Alpine Elementary. On composite proficiency, Alpine Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 21.9%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Alpine Elementary has edged up 20%, going from 492 students in 2018 to 591 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 80% to 90%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 26.3:1 today.

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