Opal Robinson Elementary

Opal Robinson Elementary is a K-5 school of small scale in Manhattan Beach, California, operated by Manhattan Beach Unified, works with 303 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 35% leaner than the state mean of about 465.

Manhattan Beach Unified runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 5,887 students. Opal Robinson Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Opal Robinson Elementary logs that White students make up the majority at 58%. Other groups include 16% multiracial, 14% Hispanic, 10% Asian. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

Looking at school resources, Opal Robinson Elementary logs 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 4% of students at Opal Robinson Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Opal Robinson Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 77.0%, the actual is 87.9%, a residual of +10.9 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) shows that 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%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Opal Robinson Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Hermosa Vista, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Opal Robinson Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 79.8%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Opal Robinson Elementary's enrollment has declined 21% since 2018, when it stood at 384 (now 303). White enrollment moved from 68% to 58% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Opal Robinson Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.