Valentine Elementary

Valentine Elementary operates as a sizable K-5 school in San Marino, California, one of the schools within San Marino Unified. Current enrollment sits at 711 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Valentine Elementary sits 53% bigger than that benchmark.

Valentine Elementary is one of 4 schools operated by San Marino Unified, a district that serves 3,083 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Valentine Elementary reports that 60% of the student body identifies as Asian. Other groups include 18% White, 14% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 15% Asian, putting the school's mix considerably more Asian than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Valentine Elementary logs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Valentine Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 11% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Valentine Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 72.8%; actual is 90.4%, +17.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, Los Angeles County reports that 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%. Valentine Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Huntington Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Valentine Elementary. On composite proficiency, Valentine Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 62.9%.

Valentine Elementary operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 21%: 586 students in 2018 compared to 711 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 28% to 18%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.5:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Valentine Elementary community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.