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El Monte, California - 8 schools
An equity score of 81/100 ranks Mountain View Elementary #78 of 1517 districts in California (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $19,931 per pupil, Mountain View Elementary ranks #245 of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending (California districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
4,944
Total Enrollment
8
Schools
$19,931
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Mountain View Elementary operates 8 public schools serving 4,944 students, placing it among the smaller districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 8 elementary schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Los Angeles County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $19,931 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 1862 California districts by per-pupil spending. See how California compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 20.2% local, 64.4% state, and 15.5% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 81/100, ranked #78 of 1517 in California against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 424.1:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 51.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 92.5% Hispanic or Latino, 6.8% Asian, 0.4% White across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Twin Lakes Elementary, with a diversity index of 18.0/100.
Its largest campus is Parkview Elementary, enrolling 920 students (21% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is La Primaria Elementary, at 242 students, a 4x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Parkview Elementary accounts for 18.6% of all Mountain View Elementary student enrollment
That concentration means Mountain View Elementary-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Mountain View Elementary school enrollment varies 3.8× across entities
Mountain View Elementary school enrollment ranges from 242 students (lowest) to 920 students (highest), a spread of 678 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Mountain View Elementary has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 75.2% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility — including this one — receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Mountain View Elementary student-counselor ratio is 424:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Mountain View Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 51.4% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.