Meadowlark Elementary

Meadowlark Elementary is an elementary-level community of compact scale in Acton, California, overseen by Acton-Agua Dulce Unified, serveing 352 students in grades K through 4. That puts it 24% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Acton-Agua Dulce Unified, which oversees 3 schools and 1,053 students, Meadowlark Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Meadowlark Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 34% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, On paper, Meadowlark Elementary has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Meadowlark Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.9%, the actual is 31.4%, a residual of -6.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Meadowlark Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: High Desert, around 1.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Meadowlark Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 29.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 18%: 430 students in 2018 compared to 352 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 43% to 62% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 today.

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