Public school / Primary
Rancho Vista Elementary
Palmdale, California
- NCES ID
- 064212009655
- District
- Westside Union Elementary
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Rancho Vista Elementary is a public primary school in Palmdale, California, run by Westside Union Elementary. It enrols 866 students — the 11842nd 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
866
Teachers
33.0
Students per teacher
26.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
56.4%
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 Westside Union 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.
- 1Esperanza Elementary950 students
- 2Hillview Middle907 students
- 3Gregg Anderson Academy867 students
- 4Rancho Vista Elementary866 students
- 5Sundown Elementary848 students
- 6Quartz Hill Elementary813 students
- 7Del Sur Senior Elementary741 students
- 8Joe Walker Middle736 students
- Enrollment+82.7%
- Teachers+57.1%
- Students per teacher+18.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−16.9%
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