Royal Oaks STEAM Academy (K-8)

Royal Oaks STEAM Academy (K-8), a sizable primary school in Bradbury, California, operated by Duarte Unified, enrolls 848 students, covering grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 82% larger than the state mean of about 465.

Duarte Unified comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,949 students; Royal Oaks STEAM Academy (K-8) is among them.

Demographically, Royal Oaks STEAM Academy (K-8) records that 62% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 17% Asian, 9% multiracial, 8% White, 4% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Royal Oaks STEAM Academy (K-8) higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Royal Oaks STEAM Academy (K-8) performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.0%, the actual is 39.8%, a residual of -5.3 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Royal Oaks STEAM Academy (K-8) is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Mt. Olive Innovation and Technology High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Royal Oaks STEAM Academy (K-8) ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 42.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 12%: 757 students in 2018 compared to 848 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 14% to 8% across the same window.

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