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Enrollment
630
Elementary
DISTRICT 483 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROWLAND UNIFIED·NCES 063375005215
Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology
1300 South Brea Canyon Cutoff Rd., Walnut, CA 91789 · (909) 598-3744 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL630 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 73% of California public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
25.0:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.3:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
421 students
DISTRICT 81% · 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 | 74 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 66 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 58 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 70 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 91 | 14% |
| Grade 8 | 84 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 12% smaller than its 8th grade class (84).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
60.0%
CA avg 49.1% . -1.0pp since 2014
Math
42.8%
CA avg 37.7% . -13.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 13 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 25.6% | 34.4% | 21.6% | 18.5% |
| Math | 21.7% | 21.1% | 27.9% | 29.3% |
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 | 60.0% | 42.8% |
| 2023-24 | 60.6% | 43.1% |
| 2022-23 | 57.3% | 43.1% |
| 2021-22 | 60.3% | 43.8% |
| 2018-19 | 59.1% | 50.1% |
| 2017-18 | 61.2% | 49.6% |
| 2016-17 | 60.3% | 52.2% |
| 2015-16 | 62.0% | 57.0% |
| 2014-15 | 61.0% | 56.0% |
% 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
51.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.4%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology
Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology's state test result (51.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology this school | 630 | 66.8% | 51.6% |
| Chaparral Elementary Chino Hills | 616 | 66.6% | 54.9% |
| Rocketship Rising Stars San Jose | 621 | 64.7% | N/A |
| Lone Star Elementary Fresno | 672 | 72.0% | 47.4% |
| Temperance-Kutner Elementary Fresno | 618 | 68.3% | 47.1% |
| Fancher Creek Elementary Fresno | 649 | 72.3% | 41.7% |
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 Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.6% | #1,607 of 5,151 | #360 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.8% | #2,080 of 5,172 ▼ 119 | #518 of 1,129 ▼ 67 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #1,331 of 5,172 ▼ 110 | #300 of 1,129 ▼ 28 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.7pp | #1,581 of 5,116 | #274 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 630 | #1,153 of 5,915 | #220 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 25.0:1 | #4,450 of 5,352 | #1,007 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.7% | #2,265 of 5,354 | #352 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.8% | #3,132 of 5,625 | #880 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.1% | #3,048 of 3,837 | #810 of 947 |
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
630
-49 (-7%) vs 2020
+16% since 1990-91, when it was 544
Student : Teacher
25.0:1
was 23.4:1
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 | 630 | 25.2 | 25.0:1 | 67% (421) |
| 2023-24 | 595 | 25.5 | 23.3:1 | 71% (424) |
| 2022-23 | 596 | 28.7 | 20.8:1 | 67% (400) |
| 2020-21 | 679 | 29 | 23.4:1 | 58% (397) |
| 2017-18 | 678 | 27.2 | 24.9:1 | 60% (409) |
| 2015-16 | 677 | 28 | 24.2:1 | 49% (330) |
| 2010-11 | 610 | N/A | N/A | 35% (215) |
| 2000-01 | 554 | 24 | 23.1:1 | 27% (152) |
| 1990-91 | 544 | 20 | 27.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (678 to 630); teachers down 7% (27.2 to 25.2).
About Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology
Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology, located in Walnut, California, is a mid-sized elementary school. The school runs kindergarten through 8 and enrolls 630 students. By comparison, elementary schools in California enroll about 465 students on average.
The district, Rowland Unified, has 11,541 students enrolled across 21 schools.
More than half of the students at Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology are Hispanic (56%). Next come 35% Asian, 4% White, and 3% multiracial. The diversity index for Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology is 56%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its staff includes 25.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 25.0 students per teacher. The gap from the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California is 2.7 students per teacher. Roughly 67% of students at Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology can receive free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Los Angeles County is similar, at 70%.
On the allk12 Grade, Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology lands at B+, ahead of 73% of California public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology, the prediction is 40.4% and the result is 51.6%.
The school's county is Los Angeles County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $90,112, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. There are 2,244 public schools in the county, enrolling about 1,265,907, Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology among them.
About 0.7 miles separate Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology from the closest public school, Shelyn Elementary. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology places 5th out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 7% decline, from 679 to 630. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 23.4:1 to 25.0:1.
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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 Rowland Unified
- John A. Rowland HighHigh · 2,016 students
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- Blandford ElementaryElementary · 643 students
- Alvarado IntermediateMiddle · 624 students
- Telesis Academy of Science & MathElementary · 621 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
- Walnut ElementaryElementary · 706 students
- Leonard G. Westhoff ElementaryElementary · 654 students
Nearby schools
- Shelyn Elementary0.7 mi · 508
- John A. Rowland High0.9 mi · 2,016
- Rowland Unified Community Day1.1 mi · 28
- Killian Elementary1.1 mi · 469
- Hollingworth Elementary1.2 mi · 382
- Telesis Academy of Science & Math1.2 mi · 621
Frequently asked questions
About Ybarra Academy for the Arts and TechnologyHow many students attend Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology?
Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology enrolls approximately 630 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology serve?
Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology?
Approximately 25.0:1 students per teacher at Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology.
How diverse is Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology?
Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology reports a student body of 4% White, 56% Hispanic, 1% Black, 35% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology public or private?
Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology is a public K-12 school, overseen by Rowland Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.