Point Vicente Elementary

Set in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, Point Vicente Elementary is a low-enrollment K-5 school, part of Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified. It serves 334 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 28% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Point Vicente Elementary is one of 17 schools operated by Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified, a district that caters to 10,131 students overall.

On demographics, Point Vicente Elementary logs that 31% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 31% Asian, 20% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Point Vicente Elementary has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.9:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 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.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Point Vicente Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.8%, the actual is 73.5%, a residual of +6.7 points.

In the broader community, 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 roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Point Vicente Elementary is one.

Lunada Bay Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Point Vicente Elementary comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 79.6%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Point Vicente Elementary has held roughly steady, going from 332 students in 2018 to 334 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 14% to 20% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 23.7:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 in 2025.

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