Badillo Elementary

Located at 1771 East Old Badillo Ave., in Covina, California, Badillo Elementary is a medium-sized elementary campus that instructs 442 students (grades K through 6), part of Charter Oak Unified.

Across the 10 schools in Charter Oak Unified (4,296 students total), Badillo Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Badillo Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (83%); the rest comes out to 6% White, 6% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, On paper, Badillo Elementary has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Badillo Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 36.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.9%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Los Angeles County shows 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%. Badillo Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Royal Oak Middle, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Badillo Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 44.7%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Badillo Elementary has changed only slightly, going from 438 students in 2018 to 442 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 11% to 6% across the same window.

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