Malibu High

As a compact senior high in Malibu, California, Malibu High instructs 387 students from grades 9 through 12, run under Santa Monica-Malibu Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 54% smaller than the state mean of about 838.

Across the 15 schools in Santa Monica-Malibu Unified (8,616 students total), Malibu High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Malibu High logs that 72% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 16% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 21% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Malibu High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.0%, the actual is 61.0%, a residual of -6.0 points.

Across the wider county, Los Angeles County reports that median household earnings sit near $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Malibu High is one.

Malibu Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Malibu High. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Malibu High ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 70.0%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Malibu High has shrank 59%, going from 951 students in 2018 to 387 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 77% to 72% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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