Hermosa Vista

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Hermosa Beach, California, Hermosa Vista serves 430 students from grades 2 through 4, part of Hermosa Beach City Elementary.

Hermosa Beach City Elementary runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,413 students. Hermosa Vista is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Hermosa Vista reports that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 28% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 5% Asian. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Hermosa Vista has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Hermosa Vista higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 8% of students are eligible 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.

After controlling for student poverty, Hermosa Vista sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 74.5%; this one delivers 75.4%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) logs that median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Hermosa Vista is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Opal Robinson Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hermosa Vista ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 81.6%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

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