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What's something Alta Vista Elementary does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
531
Elementary
STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY·NCES 060222000098
Alta Vista Elementary
2293 East Crabtree Ave., Porterville, CA 93257 · (559) 782-5700 · Tulare County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL531 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 9% of California public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
20.9:1
25 FTE teachers
STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
482 students
STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 82 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 41 | 8% |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 61 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 65 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 63 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (82) is 30% larger than its 8th grade class (63).
Student demographics
23%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
19.6%
CA avg 49.1% . +13.6pp since 2014
Math
9.7%
CA avg 37.7% . +5.7pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 14 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 6 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 6.4% | 13.2% | 26.4% | 54.0% |
| Math | 2.1% | 7.7% | 22.4% | 67.8% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 19.6% | 9.7% |
| 2023-24 | 14.9% | 12.7% |
| 2022-23 | 15.8% | 11.3% |
| 2021-22 | 13.4% | 6.4% |
| 2020-21 | 12.9% | 5.9% |
| 2018-19 | 19.1% | 10.5% |
| 2017-18 | 18.3% | 10.6% |
| 2016-17 | 14.1% | 6.5% |
| 2015-16 | 8.0% | 5.0% |
| 2014-15 | 6.0% | 4.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
13.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.4%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Alta Vista Elementary
Alta Vista Elementary's state test result (13.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alta Vista Elementary this school | 531 | 90.8% | 13.9% |
| Sequoia Elementary Shafter | 534 | 89.3% | 29.0% |
| Fallbrook STEM Academy Fallbrook | 600 | 90.2% | 40.7% |
| Harvest Elementary Kerman | 535 | 89.5% | 33.9% |
| Valley View Elementary Nuevo | 554 | 87.7% | 31.0% |
| Shearer Elementary Napa | 501 | 91.4% | 14.6% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Alta Vista Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Tulare County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 13.9% | #4,991 of 5,151 | #100 of 102 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 9.7% | #5,055 of 5,172 ▼ 192 | #98 of 102 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 19.6% | #4,861 of 5,172 ▲ 165 | #98 of 102 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.8pp | #1,706 of 5,116 | #55 of 102 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 531 | #2,070 of 5,915 | #43 of 110 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.9:1 | #1,428 of 5,352 | #33 of 100 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.9% | #4,276 of 5,354 | #52 of 100 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.8% | #1,010 of 5,625 | #29 of 106 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.8% | #3,345 of 3,837 | #65 of 77 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
531
+16 (+3%) vs 2020
+30% since 1990-91, when it was 410
Student : Teacher
20.9:1
was 20.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 531 | 25.4 | 20.9:1 | 91% (482) |
| 2023-24 | 520 | 25.8 | 20.2:1 | 78% (406) |
| 2022-23 | 495 | 22.2 | 22.3:1 | 91% (452) |
| 2020-21 | 515 | 25 | 20.6:1 | 85% (437) |
| 2017-18 | 558 | 26 | 21.5:1 | 73% (408) |
| 2015-16 | 572 | 27 | 21.2:1 | 86% (492) |
| 2010-11 | 524 | N/A | N/A | 89% (466) |
| 2000-01 | 485 | 23 | 21.1:1 | 99% (482) |
| 1990-91 | 410 | 18 | 22.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Alta Vista Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (558 to 531); teachers down 2% (26 to 25.4).
About Alta Vista Elementary
Alta Vista Elementary is an elementary school with a street address in Porterville, California. In all, 531 students attend the school in kindergarten through 8.
Alta Vista Elementary operates as its own local education agency.
Roughly 87% of students at Alta Vista Elementary are Hispanic. Other students are 10% White. By comparison, Tulare County residents are about 67% Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 23%.
Its staff includes 25.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 20.9 students per teacher. The gap from the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California is 1.4 students per teacher. Roughly 91% of students at Alta Vista Elementary can receive free or reduced-price lunch. That is 14 points above the 77% average for public schools in Tulare County.
Alta Vista Elementary earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 9% of California public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Alta Vista Elementary would score about 26.4%. It scores 13.9%, 12.5 points below that figure.
In Tulare County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $71,300, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 17%, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. The county has 196 public schools and about 101,494 students.
Granite Hills High is about 1.0 miles from Alta Vista Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Alta Vista Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 34.5% proficiency; Alta Vista Elementary posts 13.9%.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Small: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
Over 4 years, enrollment rose by 16 students, from 515 to 531.
On allk12, people connected to Alta Vista Elementary can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Tulare County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
478,693
Census ACS
Median income
$71,300
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
17%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
196
101,494 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Porterville
- Summit Charter AcademyCombined · 2,423 students
- Porterville HighHigh · 2,125 students
- Monache HighHigh · 1,855 students
- Monarch River AcademyCombined · 1,338 students
- Granite Hills HighHigh · 1,206 students
- Santa Fe ElementaryElementary · 809 students
Other Alta Vista Elementary schools
8 other US public schools in 6 states are named Alta Vista Elementary. Alta Vista Elementary is the 4th largest of the 9.
- Alta Vista ElementaryLos Gatos, CA · 584 students
- Alta Vista ElementaryRedondo Beach, CA · 547 students
- ALTA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHAINES CITY, FL · 780 students
- Alta Vista Elementary SchoolPHOENIX, AZ · 531 students
- Alta Vista Elementary SchoolWACO, TX · 479 students
Nearby schools
- Granite Hills High1.0 mi · 1,206
- John J. Doyle Elementary1.6 mi · 552
- Santa Fe Elementary2.4 mi · 809
- Vandalia Elementary2.6 mi · 556
- Pioneer Middle2.7 mi · 754
- Roche Elementary2.7 mi · 334
Frequently asked questions
About Alta Vista ElementaryHow many students attend Alta Vista Elementary?
Alta Vista Elementary enrolls approximately 531 students in grades KG-08.
Is Alta Vista Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Alta Vista Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
How many teachers does Alta Vista Elementary have?
Alta Vista Elementary employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.9:1.
How diverse is Alta Vista Elementary?
Alta Vista Elementary reports a student body of 10% White, 87% Hispanic, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees Alta Vista Elementary?
Alta Vista Elementary is overseen by Alta Vista Elementary in Tulare County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.