Peachland Avenue Elementary

Peachland Avenue Elementary is a medium-sized elementary-level community in Newhall, California, operated by Newhall. The school hosts 463 students in grades K through 6.

Peachland Avenue Elementary is one of 10 schools operated by Newhall, a district that works with 6,020 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Peachland Avenue Elementary records that 59% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 27% White, 9% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Peachland Avenue Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.2%; this one delivers 51.3%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Peachland Avenue Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Old Orchard Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Peachland Avenue Elementary. On composite proficiency, Peachland Avenue Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.6%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Peachland Avenue Elementary has edged down 5%, going from 488 students in 2018 to 463 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share declined from 66% to 59%.

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