Sunset Elementary

As a minimally staffed elementary-level community in La Puente, California, Sunset Elementary teaches 118 students from grades K through 6, operated by Hacienda la Puente Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 75% below typical.

Sunset Elementary is one of 35 schools operated by Hacienda la Puente Unified, a district that works with 16,260 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Sunset Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%). Beyond that, the school logs 9% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sunset Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 25.3%.

Zooming out to the county, 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 roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Sunset Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Sunset, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sunset Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 34.3%.

Sunset Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Sunset Elementary's enrollment has fell 50% since 2018, when it stood at 237 (now 118). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.8:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 today.

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