NCES CCD 2024-25 18 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Hacienda Heights, CA

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

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18
Schools
9,568
Students
28.8/100
Avg Resource Index
23.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Hacienda Heights has more public-school enrollment than 79% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Hacienda Heights's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

10 of Hacienda Heights's 18 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 3 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 63-point gap between Valley Alternative High (Continuation) and Palm Elementary shows the range hidden by Hacienda Heights'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 21%
School count
Top 17%
Resource Index average
10th percentile
Teacher staffing
5th percentile

Los Altos High accounts for 16.6% of all Hacienda Heights public-school enrollment

That concentration means Hacienda Heights-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

Hacienda Heights school enrollment varies 122× across entities

Hacienda Heights school enrollment ranges from 13 students (lowest) to 1,592 students (highest), a spread of 1,579 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. 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

Hacienda Heights operates one school district — a single-district system

Hacienda Heights's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Hacienda Heights student-teacher ratio is 23.2:1 — 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

# School Score
1. Valley Alternative High (Continuation) 73
2. Puente Hills High 71
3. Los Altos High 43
4. Valley Community Day 39
5. Glen a. Wilson High 35
6. Cedarlane Academy 32
7. Wedgeworth Elementary 32
8. Mesa Robles 31
9. Newton Middle 28
10. Grazide Elementary 26
11. Orange Grove Middle 25
12. Palm Canyon 15
13. Los Altos Elementary 14
14. Kwis Elementary 12
15. Bixby Elementary 12
16. Los Molinos Elementary 11
17. Palm Elementary 10
18. Los Robles Academy 10

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Hacienda Heights

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 Palm Canyon 67.4/100
  2. 2 Grazide Elementary 57.6/100
  3. 3 Glen a. Wilson High 56.4/100
  4. 4 Los Molinos Elementary 55.2/100
  5. 5 Cedarlane Academy 54.4/100

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Which Hacienda Heights school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Valley Alternative High (Continuation) has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Hacienda Heights schools in this federal-data comparison at 73/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Hacienda Heights, CA? ▼

Hacienda Heights has 18 public schools with a total enrollment of 9,568 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 23.2:1.

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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.