Magee Academy of Arts & Sciences

Magee Academy of Arts & Sciences is an elementary-level community of intimate scale in Pico Rivera, California, part of El Rancho Unified, hosting 376 students in grades K through 5.

Within El Rancho Unified, which oversees 13 schools and 6,716 students, Magee Academy of Arts & Sciences is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Magee Academy of Arts & Sciences reports that 97% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, Magee Academy of Arts & Sciences records 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 26.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 82% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Magee Academy of Arts & Sciences sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.5%; this one delivers 38.3%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Magee Academy of Arts & Sciences is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: STEAM Academy @ Burke, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Magee Academy of Arts & Sciences. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Magee Academy of Arts & Sciences at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 41.2%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Magee Academy of Arts & Sciences's enrollment has declined 11% since 2018, when it stood at 423 (now 376). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 30.2:1 in 2018 to 26.9:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.