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Does Valentine Elementary have enough mental health and stress support?
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Enrollment
711
Elementary
DISTRICT 744 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAN MARINO UNIFIED·NCES 063486005888
Valentine Elementary
1650 Huntington Dr., San Marino, CA 91108 · (626) 299-7090 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL711 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 94% of California public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
20.9:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.2:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
11%
80 students
DISTRICT 12% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 152 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 115 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 99 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 105 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 131 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 109 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (152) is 39% larger than its 5th grade class (109).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within San Marino Unified. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
88.5%
CA avg 49.1% . -0.5pp since 2014
Math
84.5%
CA avg 37.7% . -4.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 88 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 84 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores are down about 5 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 65.2% | 23.3% | 5.2% | 6.3% |
| Math | 62.7% | 21.8% | 13.3% | 2.2% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 88.5% | 84.5% |
| 2023-24 | 89.3% | 91.0% |
| 2022-23 | 86.0% | 87.2% |
| 2021-22 | 87.4% | 91.4% |
| 2020-21 | 85.3% | 83.9% |
| 2018-19 | 94.6% | 90.9% |
| 2017-18 | 94.0% | 92.9% |
| 2016-17 | 94.8% | 93.2% |
| 2015-16 | 95.0% | 91.0% |
| 2014-15 | 89.0% | 89.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
88.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
72.9%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 88% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 73% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Valentine Elementary
Valentine Elementary's state test result (88.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valentine Elementary this school | 711 | 11.3% | 88.4% |
| Foster City Elementary Foster City | 624 | 12.0% | 75.9% |
| Mangini Ranch Elementary Folsom | 598 | 14.2% | 80.2% |
| Montevideo Elementary San Ramon | 592 | 10.1% | 73.5% |
| Carver Elementary San Marino | 777 | 10.8% | 88.9% |
| Eastwood Elementary Irvine | 647 | 15.6% | 69.8% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Valentine Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 88.4% | #31 of 5,151 | #8 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 84.5% | #109 of 5,172 ▼ 94 | #20 of 1,129 ▼ 18 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 88.5% | #38 of 5,172 ▼ 15 | #10 of 1,129 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.9pp | #992 of 5,116 | #156 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 711 | #704 of 5,915 | #125 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.9:1 | #1,450 of 5,352 | #437 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.0% | #2,027 of 5,354 | #309 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 11.3% | #5,437 of 5,625 | #1,254 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +21.3% | #227 of 1,139 | #43 of 181 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
711
+102 (+17%) vs 2020
+10% since 1990-91, when it was 644
Student : Teacher
20.9:1
was 21.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 711 | 34 | 20.9:1 | 11% (80) |
| 2023-24 | 682 | 31.5 | 21.6:1 | 9% (60) |
| 2022-23 | 673 | 28 | 24.0:1 | 8% (56) |
| 2020-21 | 609 | 28 | 21.8:1 | 7% (45) |
| 2017-18 | 586 | 26 | 22.5:1 | 4% (22) |
| 2015-16 | 561 | 26 | 21.6:1 | 2% (14) |
| 2010-11 | 638 | N/A | N/A | 2% (14) |
| 2000-01 | 575 | 31 | 18.6:1 | 0% (2) |
| 1990-91 | 644 | 24 | 26.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Valentine Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 21% (586 to 711); teachers up 31% (26 to 34).
About Valentine Elementary
Valentine Elementary is a large elementary school in California, located in San Marino. Classes run from kindergarten through 5, and the school has 711 students. The average for elementary schools in California is about 465 students, so this school is 53% larger than average.
Valentine Elementary is one of 4 schools in San Marino Unified, which enrolls 3,083 students in total.
Valentine Elementary is 60% Asian by enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 18% White, 14% multiracial, and 7% Hispanic. In Los Angeles County overall, about 15% of residents are Asian. Valentine Elementary's diversity index is 58%, against a US figure of 70%.
The school employs the equivalent of 34 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 20.9:1. That is lower than the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 11%. For comparison, public schools in Los Angeles County average 70%.
Valentine Elementary is graded A by allk12, scoring above 94% of California public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, Valentine Elementary is among the top 10% of schools in California. Predicted: 72.9%. Actual: 88.4%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Los Angeles County show that the median household income is $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Valentine Elementary is one of 2,244 public schools in the county.
Huntington Middle is the closest public school, about 0.1 miles away in a straight line. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Valentine Elementary. Valentine Elementary places 1st of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
In the federal locale system, Valentine Elementary is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
2024-25 enrollment was 711, a 17% gain from 609 in 2020-21.
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Los Angeles County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
9,808,667
Census ACS
Median income
$90,112
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
2,244
1,265,907 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in San Marino Unified
- San Marino HighHigh · 886 students
- Carver ElementaryElementary · 777 students
- Huntington MiddleMiddle · 709 students
Other schools in San Marino
- San Marino HighHigh · 886 students
- Carver ElementaryElementary · 777 students
- Huntington MiddleMiddle · 709 students
Other Valentine Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Valentine Elementary. Valentine Elementary is the largest of the 3.
- VALENTINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLVALENTINE, NE · 285 students
- Valentine Elementary SchoolPeach Springs, AZ · 87 students
Nearby schools
- Huntington Middle0.1 mi · 709
- Coolidge Elementary0.6 mi · 232
- Washington Elementary1.1 mi · 401
- San Marino High1.1 mi · 886
- Options for Youth San Gabriel1.2 mi · 244
- Granada Elementary1.3 mi · 348
Frequently asked questions
About Valentine ElementaryHow many students attend Valentine Elementary?
Valentine Elementary enrolls approximately 711 students in grades KG-05.
Is Valentine Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Valentine Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Valentine Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Valentine Elementary is approximately 20.9:1 (34 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Valentine Elementary?
Valentine Elementary reports a student body of 18% White, 7% Hispanic, 0% Black, 60% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Who oversees Valentine Elementary?
Valentine Elementary is overseen by San Marino Unified in Los Angeles County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.