Pico Canyon Elementary

Located at 25255 Pico Canyon Rd., in Stevenson Ranch, California, Pico Canyon Elementary is a sizable K-5 school that caters to 851 students (grades K through 6), run under Newhall. Enrollment runs roughly 83% above the state mean of about 465.

Pico Canyon Elementary is one of 10 schools operated by Newhall, a district that serves 6,020 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pico Canyon Elementary lists that 29% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 28% White, 28% Asian, 11% multiracial, 3% Black. That is considerably less Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Pico Canyon Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 58.6%; actual is 76.0%, +17.4 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put 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 Pico Canyon Elementary is one.

Stevenson Ranch Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pico Canyon Elementary. On composite proficiency, Pico Canyon Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 70.5%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 7%: 911 students in 2018 compared to 851 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 35% to 28% over that span.

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