Out of 5,627 students enrolled in Temple City Unified School District, 7.3 percent were in fifth-grade during the 2018-2019 school year, according to the California Department of Education.
The grade with the highest concentration of students was 12th-grade with 9.1 percent of all students.
According to numbers provided by the National Center for Education Services, California is expected to see a decrease of three percent in public elementary and secondary school enrollment from 2017-2029. The state expected to see the largest drop in enrollment is New Mexico with a projected 12 percent decrease, while Washington D.C. is projected to see a 14 percent increase over the same time period.
In a survey conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, seven percent of respondents said large class sizes was the biggest issue facing California’s K-12 schools. In the same survey, 50 percent of the respondents said they didn’t view the financial resources their local public school was getting as adequate.
| Grade | Number of students | Total % |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 361 | 6.4 |
| First | 372 | 6.6 |
| Second | 343 | 6.1 |
| Third | 393 | 7 |
| Fourth | 398 | 7.1 |
| Fifth | 409 | 7.3 |
| Sixth | 442 | 7.9 |
| Seventh | 442 | 7.9 |
| Eighth | 482 | 8.6 |
| Ninth | 509 | 9 |
| 10th | 463 | 8.2 |
| 11th | 499 | 8.9 |
| 12th | 514 | 9.1 |
