27 public K-12 schools in La Puente from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, La Puente has more public-school enrollment than 82% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. La Puente'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.
19 of La Puente's 27 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 5 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.
La Puente's reporting schools show 76.0% free-lunch eligibility across measured enrollment, alongside an average 20.8:1 student-teacher ratio. These are separate constraints: one describes the economic context of enrolled students and the other compares student and teacher headcounts. The 72-point gap between Rowland Virtual Learning Academy and California Elementary is therefore more useful than the city mean alone. A school with a similar ratio may still report different counselor access, attendance, or gifted-program availability, so open the campus records before drawing conclusions about student support.
La Puente school enrollment ranges from 21 students (lowest) to 1,535 students (highest), a spread of 1,514 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 NCES Common Core of Data
The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data
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. | Rowland Virtual Learning Academy | 83 |
| 2. | Santana High (Continuation) | 76 |
| 3. | Nueva Vista Continuation High | 57 |
| 4. | Bassett Senior High | 44 |
| 5. | La Puente High | 42 |
| 6. | Sunkist Elementary | 42 |
| 7. | Nogales High | 39 |
| 8. | Lassalette | 39 |
| 9. | J. E. Van Wig Elementary | 35 |
| 10. | Sparks Middle | 33 |
| 11. | Sierra Vista Middle | 33 |
| 12. | Edgewood Academy | 31 |
| 13. | Don Julian Elementary | 29 |
| 14. | Rorimer Elementary | 28 |
| 15. | Baldwin Academy | 27 |
| 16. | Villacorta Elementary | 27 |
| 17. | Sunset | 27 |
| 18. | Sunset Elementary | 26 |
| 19. | Hurley Elementary | 23 |
| 20. | Yorbita Elementary | 22 |
| 21. | Northam Elementary | 21 |
| 22. | Fairgrove Academy | 17 |
| 23. | Sparks Elementary | 15 |
| 24. | Nelson Elementary | 13 |
| 25. | Del Valle Elementary | 13 |
| 26. | Workman Elementary | 12 |
| 27. | California Elementary | 11 |
Rowland Virtual Learning Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the La Puente schools in this federal-data comparison at 83/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
La Puente has 27 public schools with a total enrollment of 10,827 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 20.8:1.
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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.
