Twin Lakes Elementary

Twin Lakes Elementary is a junior high of modestly sized scale in El Monte, California, run under Mountain View Elementary, enrolling 502 students in grades 3 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 24% smaller than the state mean of about 659.

Mountain View Elementary comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 7,773 students; Twin Lakes Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Twin Lakes Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (90%); the rest breaks down as 8% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Twin Lakes Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Twin Lakes Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.6%, the actual is 21.7%, a residual of -4.9 points.

Around the school, census data for Los Angeles County shows 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%. Twin Lakes Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: La Primaria Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Twin Lakes Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 30.4%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Twin Lakes Elementary's enrollment has increased 24% since 2018, when it stood at 404 (now 502). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.8:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 today.

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