Chaparral Elementary

Chaparral Elementary, a moderately sized elementary campus in Claremont, California, one of the schools within Claremont Unified, works with 648 students, covering grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 39% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Claremont Unified runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 6,120 students. Chaparral Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Chaparral Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 37%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 29% White, 17% Asian, 15% multiracial. That is considerably less Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 30% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Chaparral Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.9%; this one delivers 63.1%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household income runs about $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Chaparral Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Claremont High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chaparral Elementary. On composite proficiency, Chaparral Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 54.4%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Chaparral Elementary's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 663 (now 648). The White share of enrollment edged down from 45% to 29% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 27.1:1 in 2018 to 25.9:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for Chaparral Elementary typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.