Pantera Elementary

Located at 801 Pantera Dr., in Diamond Bar, California, Pantera Elementary is a mid-sized elementary campus that hosts 512 students (grades K through 6), one of the schools within Pomona Unified.

Across the 37 schools in Pomona Unified (20,422 students total), Pantera Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Pantera Elementary reports that Asian students make up the majority at 68%. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% White. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

On the resource side, The school employs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.7:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 48% of students at Pantera Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, Pantera Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 51.0%; actual is 81.6%, +30.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records that median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Pantera Elementary is one.

Lorbeer Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pantera Elementary. On composite proficiency, Pantera Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 51.2%.

Pantera Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Pantera Elementary's enrollment has ticked up 42% since 2018, when it stood at 361 (now 512). The Asian share of enrollment expanded from 41% to 68% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 23.7:1 in 2025.

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