Maple Hill Elementary

Maple Hill Elementary is a medium-sized K-5 school in Diamond Bar, California, operated by Walnut Valley Unified. The school works with 556 students in grades K through 5.

Maple Hill Elementary is one of 15 schools operated by Walnut Valley Unified, a district that caters to 13,992 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Maple Hill Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly Asian (80%). Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% White. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

In terms of school funding signals, Maple Hill Elementary logs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 27.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 27% of students are eligible 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 below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Maple Hill Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 63.2%; Maple Hill Elementary posts 83.7%, +20.5 points above that line.

In the broader community, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Maple Hill Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Chaparral Middle, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Maple Hill Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 68.5%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Maple Hill Elementary's enrollment has edged up 5% since 2018, when it stood at 529 (now 556). The Asian share of enrollment grew from 68% to 80% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 25.2:1 in 2018 to 27.1:1 today.

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