Victor F. Hodge Elementary

Victor F. Hodge Elementary is a K-5 school of medium-sized scale in Azusa, California, part of Azusa Unified, hosting 460 students in grades K through 5.

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

In terms of who attends, Victor F. Hodge Elementary shows that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 3% White, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at school resources, Victor F. Hodge Elementary lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.9:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 80% 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Victor F. Hodge Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.1%; this one delivers 31.4%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Victor F. Hodge Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Henry Dalton Elementary, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Victor F. Hodge Elementary. On composite proficiency, Victor F. Hodge Elementary comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.8%.

Victor F. Hodge Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Victor F. Hodge Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 23% since 2018, when it stood at 596 (now 460). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 87% to 92%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 24.8:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 in 2025.

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