Rancho Vista Elementary

Rancho Vista Elementary is one of the roomy elementary campuss in Palmdale, California, operated by Westside Union Elementary, with 886 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. That puts it 91% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Across the 12 schools in Westside Union Elementary (9,078 students total), Rancho Vista Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rancho Vista Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 57% of enrollment. Other groups include 21% White, 13% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Rancho Vista Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.8%, the actual is 37.8%, a residual of -8.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Rancho Vista Elementary is one.

Hillview Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Rancho Vista Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 43.9%.

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

Five-year trend. Rancho Vista Elementary's enrollment has grew 15% since 2018, when it stood at 773 (now 886). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 34% to 21%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 28.6:1 in 2018 to 26.9:1 today.

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