Mint Canyon Community Elementary

Mint Canyon Community Elementary, a moderately sized elementary-level community in Canyon Country, California, run under Sulphur Springs Union, teaches 472 students, covering grades K through 6.

Within Sulphur Springs Union, which oversees 9 schools and 5,157 students, Mint Canyon Community Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Mint Canyon Community Elementary records that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder is composed of 10% White, 6% Black, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. 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, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mint Canyon Community Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.3%; this one delivers 42.1%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Mint Canyon Community Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Pinetree Community Elementary, roughly 1.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mint Canyon Community Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mint Canyon Community Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 45.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 6%: 447 students in 2018 compared to 472 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.8:1 in 2018 to 23.6:1 in 2025.

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