Plum Canyon Elementary
Saugus, CA · Middle School
Plum Canyon Elementary is a middle school in Saugus, CA with 812 students enrolled and a 62% proficiency rate. Part of Saugus Union. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Plum Canyon Elementary is a middle school located in Saugus, California. The school serves 812 students. The student-to-teacher ratio is 27.1:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 62% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
17% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Plum Canyon Elementary is part of the Saugus Union in California.
How This School Compares
Plum Canyon Elementary has 812 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Saugus Union (606 students). Its 62% proficiency rate is 5 percentage points above the district average of 57%. Compared to the California state average of 45%, the school performs 17 points higher. The 27.1:1 student-teacher ratio is above the national average of 16:1.
Frequently Asked Questions
Plum Canyon Elementary has 812 students enrolled. The student-to-teacher ratio is 27.1:1.
According to EDFacts data, 62% of students at Plum Canyon Elementary meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Plum Canyon Elementary is part of the Saugus Union in Saugus, California. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.