NCES CCD 2024-25 13 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Alta Loma, CA

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13 public K-12 schools in Alta Loma from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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13
Schools
9,352
Students
36.6/100
Avg Resource Index
24.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Alta Loma has more public-school enrollment than 78% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Alta Loma sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

10 of Alta Loma's 13 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 2 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 21-point gap between Carleton P. Lightfoot Elementary and Alta Loma High shows the range hidden by Alta Loma's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 22%
School count
Top 28%
Resource Index average
31st percentile
Teacher staffing
2nd percentile

Alta Loma High accounts for 25.5% of all Alta Loma public-school enrollment

That concentration means Alta Loma-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Alta Loma school enrollment varies 7.3× across entities

Alta Loma school enrollment ranges from 328 students (lowest) to 2,386 students (highest), a spread of 2,058 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Alta Loma student-teacher ratio is 24.9:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Carleton P. Lightfoot Elementary 44
2. Floyd M. Stork Elementary 44
3. Caryn Elementary 44
4. Victoria Groves Elementary 42
5. Vineyard Junior High 41
6. Carnelian Elementary 40
7. Jasper Elementary 38
8. Deer Canyon Elementary 37
9. Alta Loma Elementary 35
10. Banyan Elementary 32
11. Alta Loma Junior High 29
12. Hermosa Elementary 27
13. Alta Loma High 23

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Alta Loma

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Carleton P. Lightfoot Elementary 71.2/100
  2. 2 Caryn Elementary 71.1/100
  3. 3 Banyan Elementary 68.2/100
  4. 4 Hermosa Elementary 68.1/100
  5. 5 Vineyard Junior High 66.8/100

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Which Alta Loma school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Carleton P. Lightfoot Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Alta Loma schools in this federal-data comparison at 44/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Alta Loma, CA? ▼

Alta Loma has 13 public schools with a total enrollment of 9,352 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 24.9:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.