Dean L. Shively

Dean L. Shively operates as an intimate middle-grades school in South El Monte, California, overseen by Valle Lindo Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 289 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Dean L. Shively sits 56% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in Valle Lindo Elementary (895 students total), Dean L. Shively accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Dean L. Shively records that nearly all students (90%) are Hispanic; the rest is composed of 9% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 76% of students at Dean L. Shively qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Dean L. Shively sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.4%; this one delivers 42.9%.

Zooming out to the county, Los Angeles County reports that median household earnings sit near $90,112, 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), Dean L. Shively is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is New Temple, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Dean L. Shively comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 33.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dean L. Shively has shrank 42%, going from 501 students in 2018 to 289 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment fell from 95% to 90% over that span.

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