Workman Avenue Elementary

Located at 1941 East Workman Ave., in West Covina, California, Workman Avenue Elementary is a medium-sized K-5 school that caters to 455 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Covina-Valley Unified.

Workman Avenue Elementary is one of 17 schools operated by Covina-Valley Unified, a district that teaches 11,028 students overall.

On demographics, Workman Avenue Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (82%); the rest reads as 9% Asian, 4% White, 4% Black, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at school resources, Workman Avenue Elementary reports 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Workman Avenue Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.0%; this one delivers 38.3%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) reports that median household income runs about $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Workman Avenue Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Traweek Middle, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Workman Avenue Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.1%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Workman Avenue Elementary's enrollment has contracted 4% since 2018, when it stood at 476 (now 455).

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