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Alumni: what's one memory from Sellers Elementary that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
545
Elementary
DISTRICT 553 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GLENDORA UNIFIED·NCES 061527001957
Sellers Elementary
500 North Loraine Ave., Glendora, CA 91741 · (626) 852-4574 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL545 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
22.1:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.7:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
13%
72 students
DISTRICT 26% · 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 | 116 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 78 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 77 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 109 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 89 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (116) is 30% larger than its 5th grade class (89).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · 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
63.3%
CA avg 49.1% . +1.3pp since 2014
Math
57.6%
CA avg 37.7% . -1.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 1 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 1 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 33.0% | 30.3% | 23.9% | 12.9% |
| Math | 23.1% | 34.5% | 29.9% | 12.5% |
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 | 63.3% | 57.6% |
| 2023-24 | 67.0% | 53.6% |
| 2022-23 | 66.7% | 57.4% |
| 2021-22 | 64.0% | 58.4% |
| 2018-19 | 72.7% | 62.6% |
| 2017-18 | 77.1% | 64.0% |
| 2016-17 | 70.3% | 58.9% |
| 2015-16 | 73.0% | 59.0% |
| 2014-15 | 62.0% | 59.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
60.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
71.8%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 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 Sellers Elementary
Sellers Elementary's state test result (60.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sellers Elementary this school | 545 | 13.2% | 60.5% |
| Vallemar Elementary Pacifica | 500 | 15.6% | 58.9% |
| Encinal Elementary Atherton | 604 | 15.6% | 74.6% |
| Rancho Las Positas Elementary Livermore | 586 | 16.2% | 61.3% |
| Rossmoor Elementary Los Alamitos | 540 | 18.0% | 78.5% |
| Alta Vista Elementary Redondo Beach | 547 | 13.5% | 75.9% |
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 Sellers Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.5% | #1,095 of 5,151 | #253 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.6% | #1,169 of 5,172 ▲ 133 | #274 of 1,129 ▲ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.3% | #1,125 of 5,172 ▼ 259 | #259 of 1,129 ▼ 62 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.8pp | #1,535 of 5,116 | #258 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 545 | #1,921 of 5,915 | #381 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.1:1 | #2,249 of 5,352 | #617 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.6% | #1,052 of 5,354 | #166 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 13.2% | #5,386 of 5,625 | #1,247 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.1% | #2,274 of 3,837 | #655 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
545
-29 (-5%) vs 2020
+37% since 1990-91, when it was 397
Student : Teacher
22.1:1
was 23.0:1
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 | 545 | 24.7 | 22.1:1 | 13% (72) |
| 2023-24 | 547 | 22.9 | 23.9:1 | 23% (126) |
| 2022-23 | 556 | 22.3 | 24.9:1 | 25% (140) |
| 2020-21 | 574 | 25 | 23.0:1 | 17% (98) |
| 2017-18 | 627 | 25.8 | 24.3:1 | 18% (114) |
| 2015-16 | 607 | 23 | 26.4:1 | 17% (106) |
| 2010-11 | 627 | N/A | N/A | 11% (71) |
| 2000-01 | 594 | 30 | 19.8:1 | 3% (20) |
| 1990-91 | 397 | 15 | 26.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sellers Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (627 to 545); teachers down 4% (25.8 to 24.7).
About Sellers Elementary
Sellers Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Glendora, California. It teaches 545 students in kindergarten through 5.
Glendora Unified enrolls 6,362 students in 9 schools, including Sellers Elementary.
The student body at Sellers Elementary has no majority group. White students lead at 42%. Other groups include 35% Hispanic, 17% Asian, and 5% multiracial. The county population is about 31% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 67, compared with 70 nationally.
Sellers Elementary lists 24.7 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 22.1 students per teacher. That is in line with the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. About 13% of students at Sellers Elementary are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 70% average for public schools in Los Angeles County is 57 points.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Sellers Elementary falls in the middle 80% of California schools: 60.5% actual against 71.8% predicted.
Census data for Los Angeles County show the median household earns about $90,112 a year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Sellers Elementary, Los Angeles County has 2,244 public schools.
Sellers Elementary's closest public school neighbor is Goddard Middle, about 0.4 miles away. The five-mile area around Sellers Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Sellers Elementary ranks 6th of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 60.5% against a local average of 59.5%.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment decreased by 5% across 4 years, from 574 in 2020-21 to 545 in 2024-25.
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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 Glendora Unified
- Glendora HighHigh · 2,069 students
- Goddard MiddleMiddle · 728 students
- Sandburg MiddleMiddle · 695 students
- La Fetra ElementaryElementary · 613 students
- Cullen ElementaryElementary · 569 students
- Stanton ElementaryElementary · 551 students
Other schools in Glendora
- Glendora HighHigh · 2,069 students
- Goddard MiddleMiddle · 728 students
- Sandburg MiddleMiddle · 695 students
- La Fetra ElementaryElementary · 613 students
- Cullen ElementaryElementary · 569 students
- Stanton ElementaryElementary · 551 students
Nearby schools
- Goddard Middle0.4 mi · 728
- Cullen Elementary0.5 mi · 569
- Glendora High0.9 mi · 2,069
- La Fetra Elementary1.7 mi · 613
- Whitcomb Continuation High1.9 mi · 104
- Sandburg Middle1.9 mi · 695
Frequently asked questions
About Sellers ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Sellers Elementary?
Sellers Elementary enrolls approximately 545 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Sellers Elementary serve?
Sellers Elementary serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Sellers Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Sellers Elementary is approximately 22.1:1 (25 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Sellers Elementary?
Student demographics at Sellers Elementary are roughly 42% White, 35% Hispanic, 1% Black, 17% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Sellers Elementary in?
Sellers Elementary is part of Glendora Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.