Yorbita Elementary

As a low-enrollment primary school in La Puente, California, Yorbita Elementary serves 374 students from grades K through 6, part of Rowland Unified.

Across the 21 schools in Rowland Unified (11,541 students total), Yorbita Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Yorbita Elementary records that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Yorbita Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.8%; this one delivers 17.9%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Yorbita Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Giano Intermediate, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Yorbita Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Yorbita Elementary at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 28.7%.

Yorbita Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 22%: 482 students in 2018 compared to 374 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.4:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 today.

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