Walnut Grove Intermediate

Located at 614 East Vine, in West Covina, California, Walnut Grove Intermediate is a tiny 6-8 campus that works with 259 students (grades 7 through 8), part of West Covina Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Walnut Grove Intermediate sits 61% leaner than that benchmark.

Within West Covina Unified, which oversees 15 schools and 7,703 students, Walnut Grove Intermediate is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Walnut Grove Intermediate reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 76%. Beyond that, the school logs 15% Asian, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.4:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 90% of students at Walnut Grove Intermediate qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Walnut Grove Intermediate performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.9%, the actual is 35.7%, a residual of +9.8 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records that median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Walnut Grove Intermediate is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Wescove Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Walnut Grove Intermediate ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Walnut Grove Intermediate's enrollment has edged down 35% since 2018, when it stood at 400 (now 259). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 22.7:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

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