Alvarado Intermediate

Alvarado Intermediate operates as a moderately sized middle school in Rowland Heights, California, overseen by Rowland Unified. Current enrollment sits at 624 students spanning grades 7 through 8.

Rowland Unified comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 11,541 students; Alvarado Intermediate is among them.

On the student-mix side, Alvarado Intermediate logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 46% Asian, 3% multiracial. Compared to Los Angeles County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.4:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 80% of students are eligible 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 meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Alvarado Intermediate performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.9%, the actual is 42.9%, a residual of +11.0 points.

Around the school, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Alvarado Intermediate is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Rowland Unified Community Day is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Alvarado Intermediate at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 46.4%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Alvarado Intermediate's enrollment has edged down 14% since 2018, when it stood at 725 (now 624).

On allk12, members of the Alvarado Intermediate community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.