De Anza Elementary

De Anza Elementary is one of the medium-sized elementary schools in Baldwin Park, California, overseen by Baldwin Park Unified, with 421 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Within Baldwin Park Unified, which oversees 17 schools and 9,856 students, De Anza Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, De Anza Elementary logs that nearly all students (87%) are Hispanic; the rest reads as 10% Asian. 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 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, De Anza Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 23.3%; actual is 38.5%, +15.2 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put 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%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which De Anza Elementary is one.

Twin Lakes Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around De Anza Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), De Anza Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 33.4%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at De Anza Elementary has edged down 17%, going from 508 students in 2018 to 421 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 22.1:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 in 2025.

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