Westmont Elementary
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Westmont Elementary
Westmont Elementary is a primary school of modestly sized scale in Pomona, California, run under Pomona Unified, teacheing 327 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Westmont Elementary sits 30% below that benchmark.
Pomona Unified comprises 37 schools with combined enrollment of 20,422 students; Westmont Elementary is among them.
On the student-mix side, Westmont Elementary logs that nearly all students (96%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Westmont Elementary has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.6:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 79% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Westmont Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.5%; this one delivers 28.0%.
Zooming out to the county, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Westmont Elementary is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Ranch Hills Elementary, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Westmont Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 29.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Westmont Elementary has edged down 6%, going from 349 students in 2018 to 327 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 24.9:1 in 2018 to 22.6:1 today.
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