La Merced Intermediate

Located at 215 East Avenida de la Merced, in Montebello, California, La Merced Intermediate is a mid-tier junior high that caters to 682 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Montebello Unified.

Montebello Unified comprises 29 schools with combined enrollment of 19,149 students; La Merced Intermediate is among them.

Looking at the student body, La Merced Intermediate logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, La Merced Intermediate lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting La Merced Intermediate higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 92% of students at La Merced Intermediate qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), La Merced Intermediate performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.5%, the actual is 26.1%, a residual of +1.6 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), La Merced Intermediate is one campus in the mix.

La Merced Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), La Merced Intermediate ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 36.8%.

La Merced Intermediate operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at La Merced Intermediate has edged down 42%, going from 1,176 students in 2018 to 682 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 28.3:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 today.

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