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What do students at Yorbita Elementary actually talk about outside of class?
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Enrollment
374
Elementary
DISTRICT 483 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROWLAND UNIFIED·NCES 063375005216
Yorbita Elementary
502 South Vidalia St., La Puente, CA 91744 · (626) 964-3486 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL374 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 14% of California public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-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
19.2:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.3:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
337 students
DISTRICT 81% · STATE 65%
Community
1
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 | 67 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 50 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 45 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (67) is 49% larger than its 6th grade class (45).
Student demographics
21%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
28.2%
CA avg 49.1% . +0.2pp since 2014
Math
14.1%
CA avg 37.7% . -10.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores are down about 11 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 6.4% | 21.8% | 22.3% | 49.5% |
| Math | 3.9% | 10.2% | 31.1% | 54.9% |
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 | 28.2% | 14.1% |
| 2023-24 | 21.3% | 15.5% |
| 2022-23 | 21.3% | 11.9% |
| 2021-22 | 24.0% | 13.9% |
| 2018-19 | 35.5% | 22.1% |
| 2017-18 | 33.7% | 27.3% |
| 2016-17 | 37.9% | 26.1% |
| 2015-16 | 38.0% | 29.0% |
| 2014-15 | 28.0% | 25.0% |
% 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
19.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.7%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% 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 Yorbita Elementary
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yorbita Elementary this school | 374 | 90.1% | 19.5% |
| ISANA Octavia Academy Los Angeles | 363 | 91.2% | N/A |
| Valor Academy Elementary Arleta | 387 | 88.9% | N/A |
| Terrace Elementary Delano | 363 | 90.9% | 36.8% |
| Gabriella Charter Los Angeles | 396 | 88.4% | N/A |
| J. E. Van Wig Elementary La Puente | 334 | 90.7% | 36.2% |
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 Yorbita Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.5% | #4,619 of 5,151 | #1,083 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 14.1% | #4,829 of 5,172 ▼ 188 | #1,108 of 1,129 ▼ 23 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.2% | #4,158 of 5,172 ▲ 470 | #996 of 1,129 ▲ 76 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.2pp | #2,587 of 5,116 | #645 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 374 | #4,008 of 5,915 | #863 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.2:1 | #591 of 5,352 | #181 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 21.2% | #4,358 of 5,354 | #846 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.1% | #1,099 of 5,625 | #448 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.4% | #1,151 of 3,837 | #423 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
374
-68 (-15%) vs 2020
-54% since 1990-91, when it was 814
Student : Teacher
19.2:1
was 26.0:1
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 | 374 | 19.5 | 19.2:1 | 90% (337) |
| 2023-24 | 395 | 17.8 | 22.2:1 | 91% (360) |
| 2022-23 | 410 | 18.7 | 21.9:1 | 91% (375) |
| 2020-21 | 442 | 17 | 26.0:1 | 92% (406) |
| 2017-18 | 482 | 19 | 25.4:1 | 96% (462) |
| 2015-16 | 477 | 21 | 22.7:1 | 91% (436) |
| 2010-11 | 739 | N/A | N/A | 90% (665) |
| 2000-01 | 799 | 36 | 22.2:1 | 84% (671) |
| 1990-91 | 814 | 30 | 27.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Yorbita Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (482 to 374); teachers up 3% (19 to 19.5).
About Yorbita Elementary
Yorbita Elementary is an elementary school with a street address in La Puente, California. The student body numbers 374 students, from kindergarten through 6.
Yorbita Elementary is in Rowland Unified, a district with 11,541 students across 21 schools.
Yorbita Elementary enrolls a student body that is 89% Hispanic. The school is also 6% Asian. That is higher than the 48% Hispanic share among all Los Angeles County residents. By the diversity index, Yorbita Elementary comes in at 21%.
The school employs the equivalent of 19.5 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 19.2:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in California is 22.3:1, higher than at this school. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at Yorbita Elementary is 90%. For comparison, public schools in Los Angeles County average 70%.
allk12 grades Yorbita Elementary a D. The grade compares the school only with California public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Yorbita Elementary is 7.3 points below the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 19.5% actual, 26.7% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in California.
Census estimates describe Los Angeles County this way: median household income is about $90,112, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Los Angeles County number 2,244 and enroll about 1,265,907.
Giano Intermediate is the closest public school, about 0.4 miles away in a straight line. Yorbita Elementary is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 29.6%, higher than Yorbita Elementary's 19.5%.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment down 15%, from 442 to 374. The school's ratio fell from 26.0:1 to 19.2:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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
- Nogales HighHigh · 1,535 students
- Stanley G. Oswalt AcademyElementary · 879 students
- Blandford ElementaryElementary · 643 students
- Ybarra Academy for the Arts and TechnologyElementary · 630 students
- Alvarado IntermediateMiddle · 624 students
Other schools in La Puente
- Nogales HighHigh · 1,535 students
- La Puente HighHigh · 813 students
- Fairgrove AcademyElementary · 749 students
- Bassett Senior HighHigh · 747 students
- Sparks MiddleMiddle · 600 students
- Don Julian ElementaryElementary · 544 students
Nearby schools
- Giano Intermediate0.4 mi · 463
- Santana High (Continuation)0.5 mi · 89
- Rowland Virtual Learning Academy0.5 mi · 21
- Northam Elementary0.6 mi · 369
- Villacorta Elementary0.6 mi · 261
- Rorimer Elementary0.7 mi · 405
Frequently asked questions
About Yorbita ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Yorbita Elementary?
Yorbita Elementary enrolls approximately 374 students in grades KG-06.
Is Yorbita Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Yorbita Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Yorbita Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Yorbita Elementary is approximately 19.2:1 (20 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Yorbita Elementary?
At Yorbita Elementary, the student body is approximately 2% White, 89% Hispanic, 2% Black, 6% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Yorbita Elementary public or private?
Yorbita Elementary 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.