Palm Elementary

As a compact K-5 school in Hacienda Heights, California, Palm Elementary teaches 375 students from grades K through 5, operated by Hacienda la Puente Unified.

Palm Elementary is one of 35 schools operated by Hacienda la Puente Unified, a district that serves 16,260 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Palm Elementary logs that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 6% Asian, 6% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Palm Elementary has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 76% of students at Palm Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Palm Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.1%, the actual is 24.2%, a residual of -9.8 points.

In the broader community, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 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), Palm Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Los Robles Academy, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Palm Elementary comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 12%: 336 students in 2018 compared to 375 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 91% to 84% across the same window.

On this page, members of the Palm Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.