Los Altos Elementary

Los Altos Elementary is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary schools in Whittier, California, operated by South Whittier Elementary, with 457 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

South Whittier Elementary comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,253 students; Los Altos Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Los Altos Elementary records that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 91% of students at Los Altos Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Los Altos Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.3%, the actual is 24.1%, a residual of -1.2 points.

In the broader community, Los Angeles County reports that 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%. 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: Loma Vista Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Los Altos Elementary at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 42.0%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Los Altos Elementary's enrollment has grew 37% since 2018, when it stood at 334 (now 457). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 24.7:1 in 2018 to 21.8:1 today.

On allk12, the feed for Los Altos Elementary typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.