Paramount Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Azusa, California, Paramount Elementary instructs 513 students from grades K through 5, part of Azusa Unified.

Within Azusa Unified, which oversees 10 schools and 6,028 students, Paramount Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Paramount Elementary records that nearly all students (93%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 3% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Paramount Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Paramount Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.9%, the actual is 32.0%, a residual of +5.1 points.

In the broader community, Los Angeles County reports that median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Paramount Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Valleydale Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Paramount Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 28.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 47%: 350 students in 2018 compared to 513 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 98% to 93% across the same window.

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