Manhattan Beach Middle

Located at 1501 North Redondo Ave., in Manhattan Beach, California, Manhattan Beach Middle is a well-populated middle school that instructs 1,175 students (grades 6 through 8), part of Manhattan Beach Unified. That puts it 78% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Manhattan Beach Unified comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 5,887 students; Manhattan Beach Middle is among them.

On the student-mix side, Manhattan Beach Middle reports that 57% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school reports 15% multiracial, 14% Asian, 13% Hispanic. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 31% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Manhattan Beach Middle records 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. An estimated 5% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Manhattan Beach Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.4%, the actual is 77.1%, a residual of +0.7 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household income runs about $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Manhattan Beach Middle is one.

The closest other public school is Meadows Avenue Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Manhattan Beach Middle. On composite proficiency, Manhattan Beach Middle comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 76.2%.

Manhattan Beach Middle operates from a commuter-belt location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Manhattan Beach Middle's enrollment has edged down 18% since 2018, when it stood at 1,434 (now 1,175). White enrollment moved from 64% to 57% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 24.4:1 in 2018 to 22.0:1 today.

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