Lunada Bay Elementary

Set in Palos Verdes Estates, California, Lunada Bay Elementary is a close-knit elementary campus, overseen by Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified. It educates 329 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 29% below typical.

Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 10,131 students. Lunada Bay Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Lunada Bay Elementary shows that White students make up the majority at 59%; the rest looks like 16% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 10% Asian, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 31% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 11% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Lunada Bay Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.8%, the actual is 74.1%, a residual of +1.3 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Lunada Bay 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 Palos Verdes Intermediate, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lunada Bay Elementary comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 79.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lunada Bay Elementary has ticked down 11%, going from 369 students in 2018 to 329 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share declined from 17% to 10%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 today.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.