Rancho Las Positas Elementary

Rancho Las Positas Elementary is one of the middle-of-the-pack K-5 schools in Livermore, California, operated by Livermore Valley Joint Unified, with 586 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 26% above typical.

Rancho Las Positas Elementary is one of 18 schools operated by Livermore Valley Joint Unified, a district that educates 12,945 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Rancho Las Positas Elementary records that the largest single group is White at 38%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 28% Hispanic, 18% Asian, 13% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 30% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 16% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Alameda County (around 49%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Rancho Las Positas Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.8%, the actual is 60.2%, a residual of -9.7 points.

Around the school, Alameda County reports that median household income runs about $129,367, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Alameda County's 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), Rancho Las Positas Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Marylin Avenue Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rancho Las Positas Elementary at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 55.6%.

Rancho Las Positas Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rancho Las Positas Elementary has shrank 3%, going from 602 students in 2018 to 586 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 10% to 18% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 today.

On this page, members of the Rancho Las Positas Elementary community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.