Barranca Elementary

Barranca Elementary is one of the moderately sized primary schools in Covina, California, operated by Covina-Valley Unified, with 529 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Across the 17 schools in Covina-Valley Unified (11,028 students total), Barranca Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Barranca Elementary lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 77% of enrollment. Other groups include 9% Asian, 5% multiracial, 5% White, 3% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Barranca Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Barranca Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 35.4%; Barranca Elementary posts 50.9%, +15.6 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Barranca Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Sierra Vista Middle, around 0.6 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), Barranca Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 42.9%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 15%: 624 students in 2018 compared to 529 in 2025.

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