Alta Vista Elementary

Set in Redondo Beach, California, Alta Vista Elementary is a reasonably sized primary school, operated by Redondo Beach Unified. It caters to 547 students across grades K through 5.

Across the 14 schools in Redondo Beach Unified (9,454 students total), Alta Vista Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Alta Vista Elementary shows that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 23% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, 15% Asian, 2% Black. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

On the resource side, Alta Vista Elementary logs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Alta Vista Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 14% of students at Alta Vista Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Alta Vista Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.5%, the actual is 75.2%, a residual of +3.7 points.

Around the school, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Alta Vista Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Tulita Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Alta Vista Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 70.5%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 19%: 675 students in 2018 compared to 547 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 50% to 44%.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Alta Vista Elementary typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.