La Verne Science and Technology Charter

La Verne Science and Technology Charter is one of the compact primary schools in Pomona, California, overseen by Pomona Unified, with 270 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. That puts it 42% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Across the 37 schools in Pomona Unified (20,422 students total), La Verne Science and Technology Charter accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, La Verne Science and Technology Charter shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 77% of enrollment; the rest looks like 11% Black, 5% Asian, 3% White, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting La Verne Science and Technology Charter tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, La Verne Science and Technology Charter performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.2%, the actual is 30.6%, a residual of +1.4 points.

In the area at large, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 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), La Verne Science and Technology Charter is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is San Jose Elementary, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around La Verne Science and Technology Charter. On composite proficiency, La Verne Science and Technology Charter comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 22.7%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting. La Verne Science and Technology Charter operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 6%: 288 students in 2018 compared to 270 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 in 2025.

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