Marquez Charter

Marquez Charter, an intimate K-5 school in Pacific Palisades, California, run under Los Angeles Unified, serves 314 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 32% smaller than the state mean of about 465.

Marquez Charter is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that teaches 406,887 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Marquez Charter shows that 44% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 36% multiracial, 13% Hispanic, 5% Asian. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 31% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Marquez Charter reports 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Marquez Charter tighter than the state norm the norm. About 17% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Marquez Charter performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.6%, the actual is 78.5%, a residual of +8.8 points.

In the area at large, Los Angeles County reports that median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Marquez Charter is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Palisades Charter High, roughly 1.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Marquez Charter at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 77.7%.

The school occupies a high-density site. Marquez Charter is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 41%: 535 students in 2018 compared to 314 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 76% to 44% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.8:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 today.

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