Oak Avenue Intermediate

Oak Avenue Intermediate, a mid-tier 6-8 campus in Temple City, California, part of Temple City Unified, works with 839 students, covering grades 7 through 8. That puts it 27% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Within Temple City Unified, which oversees 8 schools and 5,269 students, Oak Avenue Intermediate is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Oak Avenue Intermediate reports that Asian students make up the majority at 68%. The remainder looks like 20% Hispanic, 5% White, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

On the resource side, On paper, Oak Avenue Intermediate has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.1:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Oak Avenue Intermediate performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.4%, the actual is 66.9%, a residual of +10.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Oak Avenue Intermediate is one.

Nearest neighbor: Temple City High, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Oak Avenue Intermediate ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 69.6%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Oak Avenue Intermediate has declined 12%, going from 950 students in 2018 to 839 in 2025.

On allk12, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.