Los Altos Elementary

Set in Hacienda Heights, California, Los Altos Elementary is a compact K-5 school, run under Hacienda la Puente Unified. It educates 391 students across grades K through 5.

Los Altos Elementary is one of 35 schools operated by Hacienda la Puente Unified, a district that serves 16,260 students overall.

On demographics, Los Altos Elementary shows that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 8% Asian, 3% multiracial, 2% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Los Altos Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.6%; this one delivers 45.6%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records that 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. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Los Altos Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Los Molinos Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Los Altos Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 52.4%.

Los Altos Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 17%: 471 students in 2018 compared to 391 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 82% to 87% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 24.5:1 in 2018 to 21.7:1 today.

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