Santa Clarita Elementary

Set in Saugus, California, Santa Clarita Elementary is a tiny primary school, one of the schools within Saugus Union. It educates 170 students across grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 63% below typical.

Saugus Union comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 9,359 students; Santa Clarita Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Santa Clarita Elementary lists that 56% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 22% White, 14% Asian, 5% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Santa Clarita Elementary has 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Santa Clarita Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.1%; this one delivers 52.4%.

Around the school, 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 the poverty rate sits near 10%. Santa Clarita Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Arroyo Seco Junior High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Santa Clarita Elementary comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 64.8%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 6-year window, the student count decreased 56%: 388 students in 2018 compared to 170 in 2024. White enrollment moved from 52% to 22% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 25.9:1 in 2018 to 24.3:1 in 2024.

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