Edgewood Academy, La Puente CA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Edgewood Academy

Edgewood Academy is a kindergarten through eighth grade public school in La Puente, a densely settled city in the San Gabriel Valley east of downtown Los Angeles. It is part of Bassett Unified School District. The school is not a charter and carries no magnet designation.

La Puente is a car-dependent, largely residential community with a working- and middle-class character, predominantly Latino with a growing share of Asian families. Most daily needs and civic life are organized around Old Town La Puente, a compact historic downtown on Main Street that has city hall, the county library branch, local restaurants, and small retail. Transit exists via Foothill Transit bus lines connecting to West Covina, El Monte, and the City of Industry, and Metrolink rail is accessible at the adjacent City of Industry station. The city is essentially built out and is now directing growth toward infill and mixed-use redevelopment of underused commercial properties, with an active city-led planning effort to add housing at varied price points. A voter-approved bond measure in the district funds facility upgrades, technology improvements, and career and technical education buildings, repaid through a long-term property tax on district homeowners.

The local housing market sits well above the national median home value and is roughly in line with the California statewide median. Home values in the zip code have risen modestly over the past year. Rental cost data for this specific area was not available, but the estimated monthly mortgage at current rates reflects the broader Southern California affordability challenge.

The student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic, with a smaller Asian share and very few students of other backgrounds. A large majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing this among schools serving high-need populations. Data on English learner counts and special education rates were not reported in the available records.

On the most recent California state assessments, the school's academic results are mixed and sit just below the midpoint among districts in Los Angeles County on an overall proficiency index. In English language arts, results by grade level range from the upper thirties to nearly sixty percent proficient, with upper elementary grades generally performing better than sixth grade before recovering somewhat in eighth grade. Math results follow a rougher pattern: third and fourth grade proficiency rates are in the low fifties, but fifth, seventh, and eighth grade rates fall to the mid-thirties, with sixth grade standing out as notably stronger. Science proficiency in fifth grade mirrors the lower end of math results, and eighth grade science is the weakest area of reported results by a clear margin. The social studies figure in the data is from a discontinued assessment given more than a decade ago and should not be read as current. Only one year of state testing data was available, so no trend information can be drawn.

Enrollment across the nine grade levels is distributed fairly evenly, though kindergarten carries the largest cohort. The school is mid-sized for a K-8 school.

No information on specific programs, courses, staffing levels, chronic absenteeism, or discipline practices was available in the data provided. Because this school does not serve high school grades, graduation rate data does not apply here.

Parents whose children are approaching middle school would do well to ask the school directly about its support systems for the grades where math and science proficiency drops most sharply, and about what preparation students receive before the transition to ninth grade.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 354%

School 54% · District 30% · ▲ 24 pts above district

▲ 11 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

Grade 452%

School 52% · District 32% · ▲ 21 pts above district

▲ 15 pts above state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

Grade 535%

School 35% · District 28% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Grade 661%

School 61% · District 34% · ▲ 27 pts above district

▲ 30 pts above state median · ▲ 30 pts above county median

Grade 735%

School 35% · District 29% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Grade 836%

School 36% · District 29% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 347%

School 47% · District 36% · ▲ 11 pts above district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Grade 451%

School 51% · District 40% · ▲ 11 pts above district

▲ 9 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Grade 550%

School 50% · District 48% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

Grade 638%

School 38% · District 41% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 6 pts below state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Grade 745%

School 45% · District 45% · ▲ 1 pts above district

even with state median · even with county median

Grade 859%

School 59% · District 42% · ▲ 17 pts above district

▲ 15 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Science

Grade 535%

School 35% · District 27% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Grade 818%

School 18% · District 21% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 850%

School 50% · District 36% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

This schoolBassett Unified, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.