Palos Verdes Intermediate

Set in Palos Verdes Estates, California, Palos Verdes Intermediate is a moderately sized middle-grades school, one of the schools within Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified. It hosts 735 students across grades 6 through 8.

Across the 17 schools in Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified (10,131 students total), Palos Verdes Intermediate accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Palos Verdes Intermediate logs that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 26% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 12% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 31% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Palos Verdes Intermediate lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Around 9% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Palos Verdes Intermediate sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 73.9%; this one delivers 76.2%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records 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%. Palos Verdes Intermediate is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Palos Verdes High, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Palos Verdes Intermediate at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 79.3%.

Palos Verdes Intermediate operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Palos Verdes Intermediate's enrollment has contracted 14% since 2018, when it stood at 855 (now 735). White enrollment moved from 54% to 45% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.0:1 in 2018 to 22.5:1 in 2025.

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