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How has Rio Vista Elementary changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
486
Elementary
DISTRICT 624 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAUGUS UNION·NCES 063597006157
Rio Vista Elementary
20417 Cedarcreek St., Canyon Country, CA 91351 · (661) 294-5330 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL486 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 80% of California public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
27.0:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 26.5:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
374 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 95 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 66 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 64 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (95) is 48% larger than its 6th grade class (64).
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
53.2%
CA avg 49.1% . +9.2pp since 2014
Math
47.6%
CA avg 37.7% . +16.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 17 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 26.4% | 26.8% | 20.4% | 26.4% |
| Math | 21.2% | 26.4% | 24.4% | 28.0% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.2% | 47.6% |
| 2023-24 | 57.6% | 42.1% |
| 2022-23 | 56.4% | 44.0% |
| 2021-22 | 50.2% | 44.9% |
| 2018-19 | 51.9% | 37.0% |
| 2017-18 | 52.5% | 37.2% |
| 2016-17 | 43.9% | 36.5% |
| 2015-16 | 45.0% | 36.0% |
| 2014-15 | 44.0% | 31.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
50.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.5%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 34% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Rio Vista Elementary
Rio Vista Elementary's state test result (50.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rio Vista Elementary this school | 486 | 77.0% | 50.0% |
| Willow Glen Elementary Visalia | 506 | 77.1% | 31.0% |
| Palmyra GATE Magnet Orange | 429 | 77.4% | 48.1% |
| Orangethorpe Elementary Fullerton | 489 | 77.7% | 29.5% |
| Lemoore Elementary Lemoore | 508 | 79.5% | 37.6% |
| Juniper Elementary Atwater | 495 | 73.3% | 41.4% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Rio Vista Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #1,724 of 5,151 | #386 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.6% | #1,748 of 5,172 ▲ 281 | #413 of 1,129 ▲ 57 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.2% | #1,812 of 5,172 ▼ 420 | #403 of 1,129 ▼ 98 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.9pp | #2,329 of 5,116 | #599 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 486 | #2,626 of 5,915 | #528 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 27.0:1 | #5,120 of 5,352 | #1,150 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.3% | #3,229 of 5,354 | #553 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.0% | #2,464 of 5,625 | #770 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.5% | #1,710 of 3,837 | #564 of 947 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
486
+214 (+79%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 508
Student : Teacher
27.0:1
was 27.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 486 | 18 | 27.0:1 | 77% (374) |
| 2023-24 | 474 | 17 | 27.9:1 | 78% (371) |
| 2022-23 | 463 | 17 | 27.2:1 | 48% (223) |
| 2020-21 | 272 | 10 | 27.2:1 | 57% (156) |
| 2017-18 | 589 | 22 | 26.8:1 | 66% (389) |
| 2015-16 | 621 | 24 | 25.9:1 | 61% (378) |
| 2010-11 | 904 | N/A | N/A | 42% (376) |
| 2000-01 | 1,001 | 46 | 21.8:1 | 24% (242) |
| 1990-91 | 508 | 19 | 26.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rio Vista Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (589 to 486); teachers down 18% (22 to 18).
About Rio Vista Elementary
Rio Vista Elementary is classified as an elementary school. It is located in Canyon Country, California. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 486 students in kindergarten through 6.
Saugus Union includes 15 schools. Together they enroll 9,359 students.
Hispanic students make up a majority at Rio Vista Elementary, at 74%. The remaining students are 13% White, 7% Asian, and 4% multiracial. Census figures show Los Angeles County is about 48% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 43% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The teaching staff at Rio Vista Elementary is 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 27.0:1. This ratio sits 4.7 above the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 77%.
allk12 grades Rio Vista Elementary an A-. The grade compares the school only with California public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Rio Vista Elementary would score about 34.5%. It scores 50.0%, a top-10% result among California schools on BeatsExpectations.
In the county around the school, Los Angeles County, the median household income is $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 2,244 public schools in Los Angeles County, enrolling about 1,265,907 students in all.
The shortest distance from Rio Vista Elementary to another public school is about 0.8 miles, to Skyblue Mesa Elementary. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Rio Vista Elementary places 4th of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The federal government classifies Rio Vista Elementary's location as Suburb: Large.
Federal data put enrollment at 272 in 2020-21 and 486 in 2024-25; the school may have served different grades in those years.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for Rio Vista Elementary covering things like sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Los Angeles County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
9,808,667
Census ACS
Median income
$90,112
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
2,244
1,265,907 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Saugus Union
- West Creek AcademyElementary · 983 students
- Mountainview ElementaryElementary · 917 students
- Plum Canyon ElementaryElementary · 876 students
- Bridgeport ElementaryElementary · 866 students
- Emblem AcademyElementary · 810 students
- Highlands ElementaryElementary · 666 students
Other schools in Canyon Country
- Canyon HighHigh · 1,952 students
- Sierra Vista Junior HighMiddle · 946 students
- Pinetree Community ElementaryElementary · 650 students
- Sulphur Springs Community ElementaryElementary · 586 students
- Mitchell Community ElementaryElementary · 569 students
- Skyblue Mesa ElementaryElementary · 569 students
Other Rio Vista Elementary schools
11 other US public schools in 3 states are named Rio Vista Elementary. Rio Vista Elementary is the 6th largest of the 12.
- Rio Vista ElementaryAnaheim, CA · 647 students
- Rio Vista ElementaryCathedral City, CA · 637 students
- Rio Vista ElementaryFillmore, CA · 553 students
- Rio Vista ElementaryBay Point, CA · 431 students
- Rio Vista ElementarySan Bernardino, CA · 412 students
Nearby schools
- Skyblue Mesa Elementary0.8 mi · 569
- Cedarcreek Elementary1.0 mi · 380
- Canyon High1.1 mi · 1,952
- Sierra Vista Junior High1.1 mi · 946
- La Mesa Junior High1.4 mi · 1,017
- Canyon Springs Community Elementary1.4 mi · 496
Frequently asked questions
About Rio Vista ElementaryHow large is Rio Vista Elementary?
Rio Vista Elementary enrolls approximately 486 students in grades KG-06.
Is Rio Vista Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Rio Vista Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many students per teacher at Rio Vista Elementary?
Approximately 27.0:1 students per teacher at Rio Vista Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Rio Vista Elementary?
At Rio Vista Elementary, the student body is approximately 13% White, 74% Hispanic, 2% Black, 7% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Rio Vista Elementary?
Rio Vista Elementary is overseen by Saugus Union in Los Angeles County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.