South Ranchito Dual Language Academy

Located at 5241 South Passons Blvd., in Pico Rivera, California, South Ranchito Dual Language Academy is a modestly sized elementary campus that hosts 351 students (grades K through 5), overseen by El Rancho Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 25% below the state mean of about 465.

Across the 13 schools in El Rancho Unified (6,716 students total), South Ranchito Dual Language Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, South Ranchito Dual Language Academy logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%). By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 85% of students at South Ranchito Dual Language Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, South Ranchito Dual Language Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.1%, the actual is 26.2%, a residual of -2.9 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), South Ranchito Dual Language Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Valencia Academy of the Arts, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts South Ranchito Dual Language Academy at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 39.9%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. South Ranchito Dual Language Academy's enrollment has contracted 34% since 2018, when it stood at 528 (now 351). Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.0:1 in 2018 to 21.9:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the South Ranchito Dual Language Academy community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.