Corvallis Middle

Corvallis Middle is an intermediate school of moderately sized scale in Norwalk, California, operated by Norwalk-La Mirada Unified, instructing 663 students in grades 6 through 8.

Norwalk-La Mirada Unified runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 14,560 students. Corvallis Middle is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Corvallis Middle lists that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 4% Asian, 4% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Corvallis Middle has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.3:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Corvallis Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.2%, the actual is 29.9%, a residual of -4.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Corvallis Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: D. D. Johnston Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Corvallis Middle comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 36.8%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Corvallis Middle's enrollment has edged down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 765 (now 663).

In the discussion threads here, members of the Corvallis Middle community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.