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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Orangewood Elementary this year?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
580
Elementary
DISTRICT 407 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST COVINA UNIFIED·NCES 064200006883
Orangewood Elementary
1440 South Orange Ave., West Covina, CA 91790 · (626) 939-4820 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL580 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 66% of California public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
25.0:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
464 students
DISTRICT 83% · 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 | 125 | 22% |
| Grade 1 | 91 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 98 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 88 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 98 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (125) is 28% larger than its 5th grade class (98).
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 41% · 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
40.4%
CA avg 49.1% . -7.6pp since 2014
Math
37.1%
CA avg 37.7% . +1.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 1 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 18.4% | 22.0% | 26.2% | 33.3% |
| Math | 14.8% | 22.3% | 32.5% | 30.4% |
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 | 40.4% | 37.1% |
| 2023-24 | 42.9% | 45.0% |
| 2022-23 | 37.7% | 38.4% |
| 2021-22 | 37.6% | 31.5% |
| 2018-19 | 43.3% | 42.9% |
| 2017-18 | 46.7% | 38.9% |
| 2016-17 | 39.3% | 32.8% |
| 2015-16 | 41.0% | 29.0% |
| 2014-15 | 48.0% | 36.0% |
% 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
41.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.7%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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 Orangewood Elementary
Orangewood Elementary's state test result (41.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orangewood Elementary this school | 580 | 80.0% | 41.4% |
| Telesis Academy of Science & Math West Covina | 621 | 81.6% | 38.2% |
| Grovecenter Elementary West Covina | 595 | 78.3% | 51.1% |
| Barton (Clara) Elementary Anaheim | 588 | 78.4% | 29.4% |
| Jefferson (Thomas) Elementary Anaheim | 513 | 80.3% | 42.1% |
| Rio Hondo Elementary Arcadia | 636 | 78.5% | 34.4% |
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 Orangewood Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.4% | #2,351 of 5,151 | #560 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.1% | #2,538 of 5,172 ▼ 710 | #638 of 1,129 ▼ 217 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.4% | #2,889 of 5,172 ▼ 452 | #691 of 1,129 ▼ 133 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.2pp | #1,930 of 5,116 | #521 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 580 | #1,566 of 5,915 | #306 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 25.0:1 | #4,445 of 5,352 | #1,004 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.3% | #3,602 of 5,354 | #644 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.0% | #2,191 of 5,625 | #695 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.5% | #3,702 of 3,837 | #928 of 947 |
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
580
-37 (-6%) vs 2020
+34% since 1990-91, when it was 434
Student : Teacher
25.0:1
was 24.7:1
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 | 580 | 23.2 | 25.0:1 | 80% (464) |
| 2023-24 | 564 | 23.4 | 24.1:1 | 71% (402) |
| 2022-23 | 560 | 25.8 | 21.7:1 | 71% (396) |
| 2020-21 | 617 | 25 | 24.7:1 | 75% (460) |
| 2017-18 | 589 | 23 | 25.6:1 | 72% (424) |
| 2015-16 | 528 | 22 | 24.0:1 | 80% (423) |
| 2010-11 | 474 | N/A | N/A | 67% (317) |
| 2000-01 | 488 | 26 | 18.8:1 | 49% (241) |
| 1990-91 | 434 | 17 | 25.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Orangewood Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (589 to 580); teachers up 1% (23 to 23.2).
About Orangewood Elementary
Orangewood Elementary is an elementary school in West Covina, California, reachable at (626) 939-4820. Federal data show 580 students enrolled in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in California average about 465 students, which makes this school 25% bigger than average.
West Covina Unified counts 7,703 students in its 15 schools, and Orangewood Elementary is one of them.
About 78% of the student body at Orangewood Elementary is Hispanic. Enrollment also includes 15% Asian, 3% multiracial, and 2% Black. Among people living in Los Angeles County, the Hispanic share is about 48%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 37%.
Orangewood Elementary has 23.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 25.0:1. Elementary schools in California average 22.3:1, 2.7 fewer students per teacher than here. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 80% at Orangewood Elementary. The rate at public schools in Los Angeles County averages 70%, lower than here.
On the allk12 Grade, Orangewood Elementary lands at B+, ahead of 66% of California public elementary schools.
Orangewood Elementary posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 41.4%, compared with a predicted 32.7%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of California schools on BeatsExpectations.
Looking at the county, Los Angeles County, median household income comes to about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Orangewood Elementary, Los Angeles County has 2,244 public schools.
A public school about 0.2 miles away, Edgewood High, is the closest to Orangewood Elementary. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Orangewood Elementary is 2nd of 7 on proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
From 617 students in 2020-21, enrollment fell to 580 by 2024-25.
This page is set up for the Orangewood Elementary community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. 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 West Covina Unified
- West Covina HighHigh · 1,756 students
- Hollencrest MiddleMiddle · 737 students
- Edgewood HighHigh · 712 students
- Merced ElementaryElementary · 617 students
- Edgewood MiddleMiddle · 597 students
- Merlinda ElementaryElementary · 460 students
Other schools in West Covina
- West Covina HighHigh · 1,756 students
- South Hills HighHigh · 1,568 students
- San Jose Charter AcademyElementary · 1,255 students
- Mesa ElementaryElementary · 753 students
- Hollencrest MiddleMiddle · 737 students
- Edgewood HighHigh · 712 students
Other Orangewood Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Orangewood Elementary. Orangewood Elementary is the 3rd largest of the 3.
- Orangewood ElementaryBakersfield, CA · 617 students
- ORANGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLFORT MYERS, FL · 679 students
Nearby schools
- Edgewood High0.2 mi · 712
- Edgewood Middle0.2 mi · 597
- San Jose Charter Academy0.4 mi · 1,255
- California Elementary0.5 mi · 220
- Wescove Elementary0.8 mi · 224
- Edgewood Academy0.9 mi · 478
Frequently asked questions
About Orangewood ElementaryHow large is Orangewood Elementary?
Orangewood Elementary enrolls approximately 580 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Orangewood Elementary serve?
Orangewood Elementary serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Orangewood Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Orangewood Elementary is approximately 25.0:1 (23 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Orangewood Elementary?
At Orangewood Elementary, the student body is approximately 2% White, 78% Hispanic, 2% Black, 15% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Orangewood Elementary public or private?
Orangewood Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by West Covina Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.