Joaquin Miller Elementary

As a big elementary campus in Burbank, California, Joaquin Miller Elementary educates 730 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Burbank Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 57% larger than the state mean of about 465.

Burbank Unified runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 14,169 students. Joaquin Miller Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Joaquin Miller Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 13% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 31% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.6:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 51% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Joaquin Miller Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.3%, the actual is 49.0%, a residual of -0.3 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Joaquin Miller Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Burbank USD Community Day, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Joaquin Miller Elementary at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 49.4%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Joaquin Miller Elementary's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 747 (now 730). The Hispanic share of enrollment fell from 18% to 13% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 25.3:1 in 2018 to 23.6:1 in 2025.

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