Miraleste Intermediate

Set in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, Miraleste Intermediate is a reasonably sized intermediate school, run under Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified. It hosts 720 students across grades 6 through 8.

Miraleste Intermediate is one of 17 schools operated by Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified, a district that educates 10,131 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Miraleste Intermediate records that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 23% Hispanic, 18% Asian, 15% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

Looking at school resources, Miraleste Intermediate shows 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.5:1. The state averages about 20.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 14% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Miraleste Intermediate tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 71.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 69.4%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Miraleste Intermediate is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Mira Catalina Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Miraleste Intermediate comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 60.8%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Miraleste Intermediate's enrollment has contracted 21% since 2018, when it stood at 917 (now 720). White enrollment moved from 56% to 42% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 27.1:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 in 2025.

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