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What tradition at Los Robles Elementary should never be changed?
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Enrollment
424
Elementary
DISTRICT 526 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PORTERVILLE UNIFIED·NCES 060006409424
Los Robles Elementary
500 East Mulberry Ave., Porterville, CA 93257 · (559) 782-7011 · Tulare County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL424 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 44% of California public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
23.1:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.9:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
403 students
DISTRICT 92% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 74 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 59 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 25% larger than its 6th grade class (59).
Student demographics
25%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
29.9%
CA avg 49.1% . +1.9pp since 2014
Math
27.0%
CA avg 37.7% . +3.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 3 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 6.2% | 23.6% | 27.8% | 42.3% |
| Math | 10.0% | 17.0% | 28.6% | 44.4% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 29.9% | 27.0% |
| 2023-24 | 26.0% | 31.8% |
| 2022-23 | 29.8% | 29.3% |
| 2021-22 | 29.7% | 17.2% |
| 2018-19 | 29.1% | 28.2% |
| 2017-18 | 34.5% | 27.5% |
| 2016-17 | 31.9% | 24.2% |
| 2015-16 | 28.0% | 25.0% |
| 2014-15 | 28.0% | 24.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
28.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.9%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 24% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Los Robles Elementary
Los Robles Elementary's state test result (28.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Robles Elementary this school | 424 | 95.0% | 28.8% |
| Don Pedro Elementary Ceres | 439 | 93.6% | 17.8% |
| Maurice Sendak Elementary North Hollywood | 421 | 95.0% | 34.4% |
| Monte Vista Elementary Porterville | 440 | 93.0% | 24.3% |
| Cohasset Street Elementary Lake Balboa | 451 | 95.1% | 28.7% |
| Belleview Elementary Porterville | 377 | 95.2% | 26.6% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Los Robles Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Tulare County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.8% | #3,664 of 5,151 | #63 of 102 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #3,535 of 5,172 ▼ 642 | #60 of 102 ▼ 22 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.9% | #3,999 of 5,172 ▲ 204 | #81 of 102 ▲ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.9pp | #1,678 of 5,116 | #54 of 102 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 424 | #3,362 of 5,915 | #72 of 110 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.1:1 | #3,030 of 5,352 | #64 of 100 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.4% | #4,164 of 5,354 | #50 of 100 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.0% | #441 of 5,625 | #12 of 106 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.5% | #1,369 of 3,837 | #16 of 77 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
424
+5 (+1%) vs 2020
-18% since 2000-01, when it was 514
Student : Teacher
23.1:1
was 29.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 424 | 18.4 | 23.1:1 | 95% (403) |
| 2023-24 | 425 | 18.1 | 23.5:1 | 78% (331) |
| 2022-23 | 465 | 20.1 | 23.2:1 | 89% (415) |
| 2020-21 | 419 | 14 | 29.9:1 | 92% (386) |
| 2017-18 | 533 | 21 | 25.4:1 | 90% (481) |
| 2015-16 | 520 | 21 | 24.8:1 | 92% (476) |
| 2010-11 | 435 | N/A | N/A | 97% (421) |
| 2000-01 | 514 | 23 | 22.4:1 | 85% (437) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Los Robles Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (533 to 424); teachers down 12% (21 to 18.4).
About Los Robles Elementary
Los Robles Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in Porterville, California, one of the schools in Porterville Unified. The school had 424 students in kindergarten through 6 in 2024-25.
Porterville Unified is made up of 22 schools with 13,893 students in all.
Hispanic students make up 86% of enrollment at Los Robles Elementary. The next largest groups are 9% White. In Tulare County overall, about 67% of residents are Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 25% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teachers at the school number 18.4 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 23.1:1. On average, elementary schools in California have 22.3:1, compared with 23.1:1 here. The school's lunch program data list 95% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. On average, public schools in Tulare County report 77%.
allk12 grades Los Robles Elementary a C+. The grade compares the school only with California public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Los Robles Elementary falls in the middle 80% of California schools: 28.8% actual against 23.9% predicted.
Within Tulare County, the median household income is $71,300, about 17% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 15%. In all, Tulare County has 196 public schools and roughly 101,494 students.
The school nearest to Los Robles Elementary is Citrus High, at a distance of about 0.3 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Los Robles Elementary is 4th on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Small: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (419) and 2024-25 (424). Federal data show the ratio falling from 29.9:1 to 23.1:1.
Topics for discussion here include science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Tulare County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
478,693
Census ACS
Median income
$71,300
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
17%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
196
101,494 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Porterville Unified
- Porterville HighHigh · 2,125 students
- Monache HighHigh · 1,855 students
- Granite Hills HighHigh · 1,206 students
- Santa Fe ElementaryElementary · 809 students
- Pioneer MiddleMiddle · 754 students
- Westfield ElementaryElementary · 661 students
Other schools in Porterville
- Summit Charter AcademyCombined · 2,423 students
- Porterville HighHigh · 2,125 students
- Monache HighHigh · 1,855 students
- Monarch River AcademyCombined · 1,338 students
- Granite Hills HighHigh · 1,206 students
- Santa Fe ElementaryElementary · 809 students
Nearby schools
- Citrus High0.3 mi · 155
- Roche Elementary0.9 mi · 334
- Belleview Elementary1.1 mi · 377
- Bartlett Middle1.3 mi · 443
- Monte Vista Elementary1.5 mi · 440
- Santa Fe Elementary1.6 mi · 809
Frequently asked questions
About Los Robles ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Los Robles Elementary?
Los Robles Elementary enrolls approximately 424 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Los Robles Elementary serve?
Los Robles Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Los Robles Elementary?
Approximately 23.1:1 students per teacher at Los Robles Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Los Robles Elementary?
At Los Robles Elementary, the student body is approximately 9% White, 86% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Los Robles Elementary?
Los Robles Elementary is overseen by Porterville Unified in Tulare County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.