Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology

Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology is a medium-sized elementary campus in Walnut, California, overseen by Rowland Unified. The school hosts 630 students in grades K through 8. That puts it 35% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Rowland Unified runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 11,541 students. Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology reports that 56% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 35% Asian, 4% White, 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, On paper, Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 67% of students at Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.0%.

In the area at large, Los Angeles County reports that median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Shelyn Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ybarra Academy for the Arts and Technology at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 57.6%.

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

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 7%: 678 students in 2018 compared to 630 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 49% to 56% over that span.

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