Public school / Primary
La Colima Elementary
Whittier, California
- NCES ID
- 061185001316
- District
- East Whittier City Elementary
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
La Colima Elementary is a public primary school in Whittier, California, run by East Whittier City Elementary. It enrols 381 students — the 53806th largest of 10,418 public schools in California.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
381
Teachers
17.0
Students per teacher
22.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
77.4%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within East Whittier City Elementary
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Granada Middle1,101 students
- 2East Whittier Middle1,056 students
- 3Ocean View Elementary639 students
- 4Hillview Middle580 students
- 5Leffingwell Elementary541 students
- 6Murphy Ranch Elementary516 students
- 7Orchard Dale Elementary514 students
- 8Scott Avenue Elementary492 students
- Enrollment−19.6%
- Teachers−19.0%
- Students per teacher+1.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+14.0%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory