Pio Pico Middle

Pio Pico Middle, a tiny middle-grades school in Los Angeles, California, overseen by Los Angeles Unified, teaches 253 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 62% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Pio Pico Middle is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Pio Pico Middle records that nearly all students (90%) are Hispanic. The remainder reads as 6% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.8:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pio Pico Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.5%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Pio Pico Middle is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Studies is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pio Pico Middle. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pio Pico Middle ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 25.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 51%: 513 students in 2018 compared to 253 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.4:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 in 2025.

On allk12, members of the Pio Pico Middle 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.