Monte Vista Elementary

Monte Vista Elementary is an elementary campus of big scale in El Monte, California, one of the schools within Mountain View Elementary, teacheing 785 students in grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 69% above the state mean of about 465.

Mountain View Elementary runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 7,773 students. Monte Vista Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Monte Vista Elementary logs that nearly all students (94%) are Hispanic. The remainder is composed of 5% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Monte Vista Elementary has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, Monte Vista Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.6%; this one delivers 28.4%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) shows that median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Monte Vista Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: New Temple, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Monte Vista Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 36.5%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 14%: 689 students in 2018 compared to 785 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 23.7:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 in 2025.

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