Sierra Vista Elementary

Located at 1800 East Whittier Blvd., in La Habra, California, Sierra Vista Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary school that teaches 467 students (grades K through 6), operated by La Habra City Elementary.

Within La Habra City Elementary, which oversees 9 schools and 4,239 students, Sierra Vista Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Sierra Vista Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%). Beyond that, the school reports 7% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Sierra Vista Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Sierra Vista Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.6%; this one delivers 39.2%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Orange County put median household income runs about $116,289, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Sierra Vista Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Ladera Palma Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sierra Vista Elementary. On composite proficiency, Sierra Vista Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 39.4%.

Sierra Vista Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Sierra Vista Elementary's enrollment has shrank 9% since 2018, when it stood at 512 (now 467). Class-load math has narrowed: from 28.4:1 in 2018 to 23.3:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Sierra Vista Elementary community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.