Monte Vista Elementary

Monte Vista Elementary is a well-populated elementary school in La Crescenta, California, run under Glendale Unified. The school works with 721 students in grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 55% larger than typical.

Glendale Unified comprises 32 schools with combined enrollment of 25,294 students; Monte Vista Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Monte Vista Elementary shows that the largest single group is Asian at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 30% White, 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

In terms of school funding signals, Monte Vista Elementary records 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 26.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Monte Vista Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 32% 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 lower than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Monte Vista Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 60.4%; actual is 89.0%, +28.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 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), Monte Vista Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Rosemont Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Monte Vista Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Monte Vista Elementary at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 75.5%.

Monte Vista Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 12%: 819 students in 2018 compared to 721 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 30.3:1 in 2018 to 26.8:1 in 2025.

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