Vejar Elementary

Vejar Elementary is one of the heavily attended K-5 schools in Pomona, California, operated by Pomona Unified, with 741 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Vejar Elementary sits 59% bigger than that benchmark.

Vejar Elementary is one of 37 schools operated by Pomona Unified, a district that caters to 20,422 students overall.

Demographically, Vejar Elementary records that nearly all students (91%) are Hispanic; the rest looks like 4% Asian, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.7:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Vejar Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.7%; this one delivers 26.6%.

In the surrounding community, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Vejar Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lopez Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Vejar Elementary. On composite proficiency, Vejar Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 27.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Vejar Elementary has declined 24%, going from 980 students in 2018 to 741 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 21.7:1 in 2025.

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