Clifton Middle

As a mid-tier intermediate school in Monrovia, California, Clifton Middle caters to 634 students from grades 6 through 8, run under Monrovia Unified.

Monrovia Unified runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 4,920 students. Clifton Middle is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Clifton Middle shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 20% White, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Clifton Middle higher than the state norm the norm. Around 60% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Clifton Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.6%, the actual is 56.2%, a residual of +12.6 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate 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. Clifton Middle is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Wild Rose School of Creative, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Clifton Middle comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 40.9%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 7%: 682 students in 2018 compared to 634 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 30% to 20%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 23.8:1 in 2018 to 22.6:1 today.

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