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What advice would you give to incoming students at Walnut Elementary?
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Enrollment
706
Elementary
DISTRICT 636 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WALNUT VALLEY UNIFIED·NCES 064128006842
Walnut Elementary
841 South Glenwick, Walnut, CA 91789 · (909) 594-1820 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL706 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
25.9:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 25.7:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
178 students
DISTRICT 26% · 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 | 139 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 101 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 111 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 120 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 111 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 124 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (139) is 12% larger than its 5th grade class (124).
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 46% · 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
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
75.3%
CA avg 49.1% . +12.3pp since 2014
Math
77.0%
CA avg 37.7% . +14.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 77 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 12 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 14 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 50.7% | 24.6% | 13.4% | 11.2% |
| Math | 54.6% | 22.4% | 15.0% | 8.0% |
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 | 75.3% | 77.0% |
| 2023-24 | 77.8% | 78.9% |
| 2022-23 | 76.1% | 78.7% |
| 2021-22 | 77.8% | 75.0% |
| 2018-19 | 76.0% | 77.4% |
| 2017-18 | 72.9% | 77.9% |
| 2016-17 | 70.8% | 71.0% |
| 2015-16 | 67.0% | 71.0% |
| 2014-15 | 63.0% | 63.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
77.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.8%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 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 Walnut Elementary
Walnut Elementary's state test result (77.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walnut Elementary this school | 706 | 25.2% | 77.2% |
| Curtner Elementary Milpitas | 663 | 23.5% | 78.2% |
| John Sinnott Elementary Milpitas | 686 | 22.6% | 79.2% |
| Quail Summit Elementary Diamond Bar | 696 | 25.0% | 80.7% |
| Leonard G. Westhoff Elementary Walnut | 654 | 20.3% | 78.1% |
| Marshall Pomeroy Elementary Milpitas | 597 | 27.6% | 67.1% |
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 Walnut Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.2% | #345 of 5,151 | #73 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.0% | #341 of 5,172 ▼ 68 | #75 of 1,129 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.3% | #481 of 5,172 ▼ 134 | #110 of 1,129 ▼ 30 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.2pp | #1,738 of 5,116 | #297 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 706 | #726 of 5,915 | #133 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 25.9:1 | #4,802 of 5,352 | #1,084 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.8% | #3,625 of 5,354 | #648 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.2% | #4,961 of 5,625 | #1,174 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.9% | #897 of 1,139 | #147 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
706
+61 (+9%) vs 2020
+20% since 1990-91, when it was 588
Student : Teacher
25.9:1
was 24.8:1
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 | 706 | 27.3 | 25.9:1 | 25% (178) |
| 2023-24 | 699 | 26.3 | 26.6:1 | 28% (196) |
| 2022-23 | 671 | 26.4 | 25.4:1 | 28% (187) |
| 2020-21 | 645 | 26 | 24.8:1 | 25% (162) |
| 2017-18 | 686 | 26 | 26.4:1 | 28% (190) |
| 2015-16 | 604 | 23 | 26.3:1 | 22% (134) |
| 2010-11 | 394 | N/A | N/A | 30% (118) |
| 2000-01 | 575 | 28 | 20.5:1 | 19% (111) |
| 1990-91 | 588 | 20 | 29.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Walnut Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (686 to 706); teachers up 5% (26 to 27.3).
About Walnut Elementary
At 841 South Glenwick in Walnut, California, Walnut Elementary operates as a high-enrollment elementary school. Students in kindergarten through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 706 students. By comparison, elementary schools in California enroll about 465 students on average.
Walnut Valley Unified serves 13,992 students across 15 schools.
More than half of the students at Walnut Elementary are Asian (78%). The next largest groups are 15% Hispanic and 6% multiracial. In Los Angeles County overall, about 15% of residents are Asian. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 37%.
The school's 27.3 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 25.9:1. Elementary schools in California have an average ratio of 22.3:1. At Walnut Elementary, 25% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That rate is below the 70% average among public schools in Los Angeles County.
Walnut Elementary's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (77.2%) and its predicted rate (64.8%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of California schools.
The county, Los Angeles County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $90,112 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Counting Walnut Elementary, Los Angeles County has 2,244 public schools.
A public school about 0.4 miles away, Ron Hockwalt Academies (Continuation), is the closest to Walnut Elementary. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, Walnut Elementary is ahead of the 63.4% nearby average, ranking 2nd of 8.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school grew from 645 students in 2020-21 to 706 in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio rising from 24.8:1 to 25.9:1.
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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 Walnut Valley Unified
- Diamond Bar HighHigh · 2,563 students
- Walnut HighHigh · 2,148 students
- Chaparral MiddleMiddle · 1,349 students
- Suzanne MiddleMiddle · 1,190 students
- South Pointe MiddleMiddle · 979 students
- Evergreen ElementaryElementary · 709 students
Other schools in Walnut
- Walnut HighHigh · 2,148 students
- Suzanne MiddleMiddle · 1,190 students
- South Pointe MiddleMiddle · 979 students
- Stanley G. Oswalt AcademyElementary · 879 students
- Leonard G. Westhoff ElementaryElementary · 654 students
- Vejar ElementaryElementary · 631 students
Other Walnut Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 5 states are named Walnut Elementary. Walnut Elementary is the largest of the 8.
- Walnut ElementaryBaldwin Park, CA · 541 students
- Walnut ElementaryLa Habra, CA · 446 students
- Walnut ElementaryNewbury Park, CA · 259 students
- Walnut Elementary SchoolAshville, OH · 469 students
- Walnut ElemEmporia, KS · 312 students
Nearby schools
- Ron Hockwalt Academies (Continuation)0.4 mi · 36
- South Pointe Middle0.8 mi · 979
- Cyrus J. Morris Elementary1.1 mi · 485
- Vejar Elementary1.1 mi · 631
- Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology1.3 mi · 630
- Walnut High1.4 mi · 2,148
Frequently asked questions
About Walnut ElementaryHow many students attend Walnut Elementary?
Walnut Elementary enrolls approximately 706 students in grades KG-05.
Is Walnut Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Walnut Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Walnut Elementary have?
Walnut Elementary employs 27 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 25.9:1.
How diverse is Walnut Elementary?
Walnut Elementary reports a student body of 1% White, 15% Hispanic, 0% Black, 78% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Walnut Elementary?
Walnut Elementary is overseen by Walnut Valley Unified in Los Angeles County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.