Fairgrove Academy

Fairgrove Academy is a roomy primary school in La Puente, California, part of Hacienda la Puente Unified. The school enrolls 749 students in grades K through 8. That puts it 61% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Hacienda la Puente Unified comprises 35 schools with combined enrollment of 16,260 students; Fairgrove Academy is among them.

On demographics, Fairgrove Academy reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (90%). Beyond that, the school reports 6% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Fairgrove Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.8%, the actual is 34.4%, a residual of +5.6 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Los Angeles County shows 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%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Fairgrove Academy is one campus in the mix.

Del Valle Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fairgrove Academy. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Fairgrove Academy at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 31.1%.

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

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fairgrove Academy has ticked down 17%, going from 898 students in 2018 to 749 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 25.7:1 in 2018 to 24.1:1 in 2025.

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