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Enrollment
416
Elementary
DISTRICT 416 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALOS VERDES PENINSULA UNIFIED·NCES 062970004615
Montemalaga Elementary
1121 Via Nogales, Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274 · (310) 378-5228 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL416 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 86% of California public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
21.2:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.2:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
6%
23 students
DISTRICT 12% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 77 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 80 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (77) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (80).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
83.3%
CA avg 49.1% . +4.3pp since 2014
Math
83.3%
CA avg 37.7% . +10.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 83 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 10 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 64.2% | 19.1% | 11.6% | 5.1% |
| Math | 56.3% | 27.0% | 13.0% | 3.7% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.3% | 83.3% |
| 2023-24 | 85.1% | 85.2% |
| 2022-23 | 86.8% | 82.7% |
| 2021-22 | 85.8% | 87.3% |
| 2018-19 | 85.7% | 77.9% |
| 2017-18 | 81.1% | 73.7% |
| 2016-17 | 76.8% | 65.7% |
| 2015-16 | 83.0% | 71.0% |
| 2014-15 | 79.0% | 73.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
84.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
76.3%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 76% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Montemalaga Elementary
Montemalaga Elementary's state test result (84.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montemalaga Elementary this school | 416 | 5.5% | 84.1% |
| Redwood Shores Elementary Redwood City | 404 | 8.2% | 78.8% |
| Central Elementary Belmont | 437 | 5.3% | 90.1% |
| Steindorf STEAM K-8 Magnet San Jose | 491 | 4.7% | 81.6% |
| Simonds Elementary San Jose | 480 | 9.2% | 75.9% |
| Springer Elementary Mountain View | 365 | 4.9% | 90.4% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Montemalaga Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 84.1% | #96 of 5,151 | #21 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 83.3% | #139 of 5,172 ▼ 49 | #25 of 1,129 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.3% | #155 of 5,172 ▼ 69 | #38 of 1,129 ▼ 19 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.3pp | #899 of 5,116 | #141 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 416 | #3,487 of 5,915 | #736 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.2:1 | #1,645 of 5,352 | #486 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.5% | #691 of 5,354 | #112 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 5.5% | #5,566 of 5,625 | #1,269 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.6% | #2,350 of 3,837 | #675 of 947 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
416
-1 (0%) vs 2020
-14% since 1990-91, when it was 481
Student : Teacher
21.2:1
was 23.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 416 | 19.6 | 21.2:1 | 6% (23) |
| 2023-24 | 436 | 18.7 | 23.3:1 | 5% (20) |
| 2022-23 | 442 | 18 | 24.6:1 | 5% (22) |
| 2020-21 | 417 | 18 | 23.2:1 | 5% (20) |
| 2017-18 | 476 | 17.6 | 27.1:1 | 6% (29) |
| 2015-16 | 494 | 19 | 26.0:1 | 3% (15) |
| 2010-11 | 474 | N/A | N/A | 1% (4) |
| 2000-01 | 413 | 20 | 20.6:1 | 1% (5) |
| 1990-91 | 481 | 16 | 30.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Montemalaga Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (476 to 416); teachers up 11% (17.6 to 19.6).
About Montemalaga Elementary
Montemalaga Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school found in Palos Verdes Estates, California. Its grade span covers kindergarten through 5, with 416 students on the rolls.
Montemalaga Elementary is part of Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified, where 17 schools serve 10,131 students.
About 43% of students at Montemalaga Elementary are Asian, the largest single group. Other reported shares: 30% White, 15% Hispanic, and 12% multiracial. Los Angeles County's residents are about 15% Asian, 27 points below the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 70, compared with 70 nationally.
Montemalaga Elementary reported 19.6 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 21.2:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in California is 22.3:1. There are 23 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 6% of enrollment. The 70% average for public schools in Los Angeles County is 64 points higher.
Among California public elementary schools, Montemalaga Elementary outscored 86%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Montemalaga Elementary is 7.8 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (84.1% versus 76.3%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in California.
For Los Angeles County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $90,112 a year, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Montemalaga Elementary, Los Angeles County has 2,244 public schools.
Cornerstone at Pedregal Elementary is the nearest public school to Montemalaga Elementary, about 0.7 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Montemalaga Elementary ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
NCES assigns Montemalaga Elementary the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at Montemalaga Elementary was 417 in 2020-21 and 416 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%. Its ratio of students to teachers was 23.2:1 in 2020-21, and 21.2:1 in 2024-25.
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Los Angeles County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
9,808,667
Census ACS
Median income
$90,112
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
2,244
1,265,907 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified
- Palos Verdes Peninsula HighHigh · 2,075 students
- Palos Verdes HighHigh · 1,484 students
- Ridgecrest IntermediateMiddle · 881 students
- Palos Verdes IntermediateMiddle · 735 students
- Miraleste IntermediateMiddle · 720 students
- Dapplegray ElementaryElementary · 639 students
Other schools in Palos Verdes Estates
- Palos Verdes HighHigh · 1,484 students
- Palos Verdes IntermediateMiddle · 735 students
- Lunada Bay ElementaryElementary · 329 students
- Sunrise Pre-SchoolElementary
Nearby schools
- Cornerstone at Pedregal Elementary0.7 mi · 411
- Silver Spur Elementary1.1 mi · 540
- Palos Verdes Intermediate1.4 mi · 735
- Vista Grande Elementary1.4 mi · 355
- Palos Verdes Peninsula High1.5 mi · 2,075
- Palos Verdes High1.6 mi · 1,484
Frequently asked questions
About Montemalaga ElementaryHow large is Montemalaga Elementary?
Montemalaga Elementary enrolls approximately 416 students in grades KG-05.
Is Montemalaga Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Montemalaga Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Montemalaga Elementary have?
Montemalaga Elementary employs 20 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.2:1.
How diverse is Montemalaga Elementary?
Montemalaga Elementary reports a student body of 30% White, 15% Hispanic, 1% Black, 43% Asian, 12% Two or more.
What district is Montemalaga Elementary in?
Montemalaga Elementary is part of Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.