Beryl Heights Elementary

Beryl Heights Elementary is a primary school of medium-sized scale in Redondo Beach, California, part of Redondo Beach Unified, caters to 422 students in grades K through 5.

Redondo Beach Unified comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 9,454 students; Beryl Heights Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Beryl Heights Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 23% Hispanic, 21% multiracial, 9% Asian. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 31% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Beryl Heights Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 13% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Beryl Heights Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.8%, the actual is 75.0%, a residual of +3.3 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Beryl Heights Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Patricia Dreizler Continuation High, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Beryl Heights Elementary comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 72.8%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 10%: 468 students in 2018 compared to 422 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 54% to 46%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 26.0:1 in 2018 to 24.8:1 today.

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