California Elementary

Set in West Covina, California, California Elementary is a cozy elementary campus, operated by West Covina Unified. It enrolls 220 students across grades 3 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 53% below the state mean of about 465.

West Covina Unified runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 7,703 students. California Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, California Elementary records that 77% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 14% Asian, 4% White, 4% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting California Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 90% of students at California Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, California Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 26.5%; actual is 41.1%, +14.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household earnings sit near $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which California Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Wescove Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, California Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.6%.

California Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at California Elementary has ticked down 38%, going from 355 students in 2018 to 220 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.7:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 today.

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