Parkview Elementary

Parkview Elementary operates as a sprawling K-5 school in El Monte, California, overseen by Mountain View Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 920 students spanning grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 98% above typical.

Mountain View Elementary runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 7,773 students. Parkview Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Parkview Elementary logs that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder consists of 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Parkview Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Parkview Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 21.8%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Parkview Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Maxson Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Parkview Elementary comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 30.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Parkview Elementary's enrollment has ticked up 10% since 2018, when it stood at 836 (now 920). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 today.

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