Philip Magruder Middle

Philip Magruder Middle is one of the mid-tier middle-grades schools in Torrance, California, run under Torrance Unified, with 635 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Torrance Unified runs 31 schools in total, collectively educating 21,890 students. Philip Magruder Middle is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Philip Magruder Middle reports that 51% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 21% Asian, 12% White, 8% multiracial, 7% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Los Angeles County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 27.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Philip Magruder Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.2%; this one delivers 46.6%.

In the area at large, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Philip Magruder Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Edison Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Philip Magruder Middle. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Philip Magruder Middle ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 57.7%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Philip Magruder Middle has grew 12%, going from 565 students in 2018 to 635 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 17% to 12% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 22.3:1 in 2018 to 27.3:1 in 2025.

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