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Hurley Elementary
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 18 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 22% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Hurley Elementary
Hurley Elementary is a low-enrollment primary school in La Puente, California, run under Rowland Unified. The school hosts 387 students in grades K through 6.
Across the 21 schools in Rowland Unified (11,541 students total), Hurley Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, Hurley Elementary shows that nearly all students (94%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 4% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.
After controlling for student poverty, Hurley Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.4%, the actual is 32.8%, a residual of +10.4 points.
Around the school, Los Angeles County reports that 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 Hurley Elementary is one.
Northam Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 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 Hurley Elementary at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 35.9%.
Hurley Elementary operates from a suburban location.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hurley Elementary has decreased 26%, going from 520 students in 2018 to 387 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 24.8:1 in 2018 to 21.0:1 in 2025.
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