Macy Intermediate

Located at 2101 South Lupine Ave., in Monterey Park, California, Macy Intermediate is a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school that hosts 576 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Montebello Unified.

Montebello Unified runs 29 schools in total, collectively educating 19,149 students. Macy Intermediate is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Macy Intermediate logs that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 14% Asian, 2% White. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Macy Intermediate has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.2:1. The state averages about 20.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 76% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Macy Intermediate performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.2%, the actual is 42.9%, a residual of +8.7 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Macy Intermediate is one.

The closest other public school is Bella Vista Elementary, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Macy Intermediate ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 48.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 37%: 908 students in 2018 compared to 576 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 30.4:1 in 2018 to 21.2:1 in 2025.

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