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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Monte Vista Elementary this year?
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Enrollment
788
Elementary
DISTRICT 562 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LANCASTER ELEMENTARY·NCES 062088002510
Monte Vista Elementary
1235 West Kettering St., Lancaster, CA 93534 · (661) 942-1477 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL788 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
25.4:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.5:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
706 students
DISTRICT 88% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 129 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 115 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 133 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 143 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 127 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 141 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (129) is 9% smaller than its 5th grade class (141).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
24.2%
CA avg 49.1% . +1.2pp since 2014
Math
15.3%
CA avg 37.7% . +2.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 2 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 7.1% | 17.1% | 24.2% | 51.5% |
| Math | 4.1% | 11.2% | 23.9% | 60.8% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.2% | 15.3% |
| 2023-24 | 18.4% | 12.4% |
| 2022-23 | 17.7% | 13.2% |
| 2021-22 | 18.7% | 10.8% |
| 2018-19 | 36.5% | 27.1% |
| 2017-18 | 39.4% | 24.5% |
| 2016-17 | 26.2% | 20.3% |
| 2015-16 | 29.0% | 19.0% |
| 2014-15 | 23.0% | 13.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
17.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
27.1%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Monte Vista Elementary
Monte Vista Elementary's state test result (17.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monte Vista Elementary this school | 788 | 89.6% | 17.7% |
| Village Elementary Victorville | 763 | 89.5% | 13.6% |
| Mariposa Elementary Lancaster | 732 | 94.4% | 15.5% |
| Jack Northrop Elementary Lancaster | 645 | 89.3% | 18.2% |
| Tamarisk Elementary Palmdale | 664 | 93.4% | 12.5% |
| Columbia Elementary Lancaster | 620 | 88.5% | 17.8% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Monte Vista Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.7% | #4,770 of 5,151 | #1,101 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.3% | #4,723 of 5,172 ▲ 163 | #1,101 of 1,129 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.2% | #4,556 of 5,172 ▲ 289 | #1,069 of 1,129 ▲ 36 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.0pp | #1,657 of 5,116 | #468 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 788 | #415 of 5,915 | #70 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 25.4:1 | #4,624 of 5,352 | #1,049 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.1% | #2,329 of 5,354 | #359 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.6% | #1,147 of 5,625 | #461 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.4% | #1,022 of 1,139 | #157 of 181 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
788
+54 (+7%) vs 2020
-12% since 1990-91, when it was 897
Student : Teacher
25.4:1
was 25.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 788 | 31 | 25.4:1 | 90% (706) |
| 2023-24 | 792 | 31 | 25.6:1 | 89% (701) |
| 2022-23 | 819 | 30 | 27.3:1 | 91% (743) |
| 2020-21 | 734 | 29 | 25.3:1 | 91% (670) |
| 2017-18 | 777 | 30 | 25.9:1 | 87% (674) |
| 2015-16 | 750 | 30 | 25.0:1 | 81% (605) |
| 2010-11 | 748 | N/A | N/A | 69% (513) |
| 2000-01 | 973 | 43 | 22.6:1 | 62% (604) |
| 1990-91 | 897 | 31 | 28.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Monte Vista Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (777 to 788); teachers up 3% (30 to 31).
About Monte Vista Elementary
Monte Vista Elementary is a large elementary school in Lancaster, California. Students in kindergarten through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 788 students. Elementary schools in California have about 465 students on average; enrollment here is 69% higher.
Lancaster Elementary is made up of 23 schools with 13,765 students in all.
More than half of enrollment at Monte Vista Elementary is Hispanic: 62%. The remaining shares are 25% Black, 6% White, and 6% multiracial. Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Monte Vista Elementary scores 55%.
The school has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 25.4 students per teacher. Elementary schools in California average 22.3:1, 3.1 fewer students per teacher than here. Of all students at Monte Vista Elementary, 90% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Los Angeles County average 70%.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Monte Vista Elementary is -9.4 points: 17.7% actual, 27.1% predicted.
Looking at the county, Los Angeles County, the median household earns about $90,112 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Los Angeles County has 2,244 public schools with about 1,265,907 students, including Monte Vista Elementary.
Desert View Elementary sits about 0.8 miles from Monte Vista Elementary. Within five miles of Monte Vista Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among the 4 closest schools with test data, this one included, Monte Vista Elementary ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment increased by 54 students, from 734 to 788.
This page is set up for the Monte Vista Elementary community to discuss open houses, carpools, and field trips. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Los Angeles County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
9,808,667
Census ACS
Median income
$90,112
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
2,244
1,265,907 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lancaster Elementary
- Amargosa Creek MiddleMiddle · 859 students
- New Vista MiddleMiddle · 835 students
- Endeavour MiddleMiddle · 805 students
- El Dorado ElementaryElementary · 766 students
- West Wind ElementaryElementary · 757 students
- Lincoln ElementaryElementary · 738 students
Other schools in Lancaster
- Assurance Learning AcademyHigh · 3,014 students
- Lancaster HighHigh · 2,688 students
- Eastside HighHigh · 2,631 students
- Antelope Valley HighHigh · 1,498 students
- Sundown ElementaryElementary · 941 students
- Amargosa Creek MiddleMiddle · 859 students
Other Monte Vista Elementary schools
13 other US public schools in 3 states are named Monte Vista Elementary. Monte Vista Elementary is the largest of the 14.
- Monte Vista ElementaryEl Monte, CA · 785 students
- Monte Vista ElementaryMurrieta, CA · 769 students
- Monte Vista ElementaryLa Crescenta, CA · 721 students
- Monte Vista ElementaryVista, CA · 556 students
- Monte Vista ElementaryMontclair, CA · 535 students
Nearby schools
- Desert View Elementary0.8 mi · 688
- Empower Generations0.9 mi · 81
- The Leadership Academy1.0 mi · 35
- RISE1.0 mi · 16
- Mariposa Elementary1.1 mi · 732
- Lancaster Alternative and Virtual Academies1.1 mi · 282
Frequently asked questions
About Monte Vista ElementaryHow many students attend Monte Vista Elementary?
Monte Vista Elementary enrolls approximately 788 students in grades KG-05.
Is Monte Vista Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Monte Vista Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Monte Vista Elementary have?
Monte Vista Elementary employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 25.4:1.
How diverse is Monte Vista Elementary?
Monte Vista Elementary reports a student body of 6% White, 62% Hispanic, 25% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Monte Vista Elementary public or private?
Monte Vista Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Lancaster Elementary.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.