Fairgrove Academy, La Puente CA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Fairgrove Academy

Fairgrove Academy is a public kindergarten-through-eighth-grade school serving roughly three-quarters of the way through the full grade band in La Puente, a small, densely populated city in the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles. The school sits within Hacienda La Puente Unified, which underwent significant reconfiguration in 2024 by closing four schools due to declining enrollment—a change that affected student placement across the remaining campuses and signals continued pressure on the district's footprint.

The school serves an enrollment concentrated in the middle grades, with the largest cohorts in grades six through eight. Nearly all students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the student body is overwhelmingly Latino, with smaller populations of Asian and multiracial students. This profile reflects La Puente itself, a working- and middle-class community that has grown more diverse in recent years and sits within an industrial-adjacent part of the San Gabriel Valley where manufacturing, health care, and retail employment predominate among residents.

On state assessments administered in 2024-25, Fairgrove's performance shows uneven strength across subject and grade. In English Language Arts, proficiency runs from the low forties to high fifties across tested grades, with third and eighth grades performing notably better than grades four through six. Math proficiency is lower across the board, ranging from the low twenties in fifth grade to the mid-fifties in third grade, with most middle grades clustering in the mid-thirties to forties. Science results, where tested, show weakness in fifth grade and stronger showing in eighth. The school's overall proficiency index sits below the midpoint relative to districts across Los Angeles County, indicating academic results that trail the county median. A single earlier data point from 2013 on social studies shows eighth-grade performance in the sixties, though this metric has since been replaced by the current state assessment system.

This academic pattern, with stronger early-grade results and declining proficiency as grades advance, is a particular area a parent may want to look into further with the school. The steepness of the drop from third to fifth grade in both math and literacy warrants conversation about curriculum continuity, instructional approach, and what supports exist for students as the academic demands shift in the upper elementary years.

The district has implemented an Intersectional Ethnic Studies curriculum across all grade levels and disciplines, a TK-12 framework that families choosing the school will encounter. The district's board is now elected by trustee area rather than at-large, a change made to align with state voting rights law and to ensure neighborhood-level representation.

Housing in the 91744 zip code where the school sits is moderately valued relative to California and the nation, though rents have risen and affordability depends heavily on household income. La Puente itself is somewhat walkable but car-dependent; civic life concentrates in Old Town La Puente along Main Street, where the library and city hall sit. The city is pursuing mixed-use redevelopment to add walkable mixed-income housing in place of underused commercial properties, a longer-term shift in how the neighborhood may develop.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 354%

School 54% · District 52% · ▲ 2 pts above district

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

Grade 439%

School 39% · District 46% · ▼ 7 pts below district

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

Grade 521%

School 21% · District 38% · ▼ 17 pts below district

▼ 9 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Grade 636%

School 36% · District 35%

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

Grade 730%

School 30% · District 40% · ▼ 10 pts below district

even with state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 840%

School 40% · District 35% · ▲ 5 pts above district

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

English language arts

Grade 357%

School 57% · District 48% · ▲ 9 pts above district

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

Grade 438%

School 38% · District 45% · ▼ 7 pts below district

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

Grade 553%

School 53% · District 50% · ▲ 2 pts above district

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

Grade 640%

School 40% · District 47% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 4 pts below state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Grade 745%

School 45% · District 54% · ▼ 9 pts below district

even with state median · even with county median

Grade 859%

School 59% · District 52% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 13 pts above county median

Science

Grade 519%

School 19% · District 32% · ▼ 13 pts below district

▼ 9 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Grade 833%

School 33% · District 30% · ▲ 3 pts above district

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

Social studies

Grade 862%

School 62% · District 60% · ▲ 2 pts above district

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

This schoolHacienda la Puente 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.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 6Lower-income36%Higher-income75%39 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income43%Higher-income63%20 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income57%Higher-income69%12 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income54%Higher-income55%0 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income33%Higher-income58%25 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income28%Higher-income38%9 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income40%Higher-income46%7 pp gap