Del Valle Elementary

As an intimate elementary-level community in La Puente, California, Del Valle Elementary works with 212 students from grades K through 6, part of Hacienda la Puente Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Del Valle Elementary sits 54% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Hacienda la Puente Unified, which oversees 35 schools and 16,260 students, Del Valle Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Del Valle Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (90%). Beyond that, the school logs 7% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 27.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 82% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Del Valle Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.9%; this one delivers 34.6%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Del Valle Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Sierra Vista Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Del Valle Elementary at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 30.6%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 6-year window. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at Del Valle Elementary has ticked down 42%, going from 363 students in 2018 to 212 in 2024. The Hispanic share of enrollment fell from 95% to 90% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 25.6:1 in 2018 to 23.6:1 today.

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