Los Robles Academy

As an intimate K-5 school in Hacienda Heights, California, Los Robles Academy works with 199 students from grades K through 5, operated by Hacienda la Puente Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 57% leaner than typical.

Hacienda la Puente Unified runs 35 schools in total, collectively educating 16,260 students. Los Robles Academy is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Los Robles Academy reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (83%). The remainder looks like 7% Asian, 5% multiracial, 5% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 78% of students at Los Robles Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. 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, Los Robles Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.1%, the actual is 28.8%, a residual of -4.3 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) reports that median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Los Robles Academy is one campus in the mix.

Palm Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Los Robles Academy comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 31.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. Los Robles Academy's enrollment has edged down 27% since 2018, when it stood at 271 (now 199). Hispanic enrollment moved from 91% to 83% across the same window.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Los Robles Academy community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.