Olive Vista Middle

Olive Vista Middle operates as a reasonably sized intermediate school in Sylmar, California, operated by Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 897 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 36% bigger than the state mean of about 659.

Olive Vista Middle is one of 784 schools operated by Los Angeles Unified, a district that serves 406,887 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Olive Vista Middle shows that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Olive Vista Middle has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Roughly 89% of students at Olive Vista Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Olive Vista Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 26.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.6%.

In the broader community, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), Olive Vista Middle is one campus in the mix.

Sylmar Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Olive Vista Middle comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.3%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Olive Vista Middle's enrollment has decreased 23% since 2018, when it stood at 1,164 (now 897). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 today.

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