Valleydale Elementary

Valleydale Elementary, a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Azusa, California, run under Azusa Unified, hosts 526 students, covering grades K through 5.

Azusa Unified runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 6,028 students. Valleydale Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Valleydale Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%). Other groups include 4% multiracial, 4% Asian, 2% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. 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, Valleydale Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.8%; this one delivers 23.3%.

In the area at large, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household income runs about $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Valleydale Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Gladstone Middle, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Valleydale Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 32.1%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Valleydale Elementary's enrollment has climbed 100% since 2018, when it stood at 263 (now 526). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 29.2:1 in 2018 to 21.9:1 today.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.