Las Palmas Middle

Set in Covina, California, Las Palmas Middle is a medium-sized middle-grades school, run under Covina-Valley Unified. It instructs 887 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 35% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Across the 17 schools in Covina-Valley Unified (11,028 students total), Las Palmas Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Las Palmas Middle shows that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 7% Asian, 5% White. 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 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Las Palmas Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.6%, the actual is 40.8%, a residual of +8.2 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put 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%. Las Palmas Middle is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Grovecenter Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Las Palmas Middle at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 41.0%.

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

Five-year trend. Las Palmas Middle's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 900 (now 887). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.7:1 in 2018 to 22.6:1 today.

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