Longley Way Elementary

Longley Way Elementary is an elementary school of mid-tier scale in Arcadia, California, part of Arcadia Unified, works with 541 students in grades K through 5.

Arcadia Unified comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 9,061 students; Longley Way Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Longley Way Elementary records that the largest single group is Asian, at 68% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 19% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 15% Asian, putting the school's mix considerably more Asian than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Longley Way Elementary records 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Longley Way Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 30% of students at Longley Way Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Longley Way Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.5%; this one delivers 74.1%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Longley Way Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Baldwin Stocker Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Longley Way Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 60.7%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 14%: 474 students in 2018 compared to 541 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment decreased from 74% to 68% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 25.6:1 in 2018 to 23.5:1 today.

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