Enrollment
334
Elementary
DISTRICT 416 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALOS VERDES PENINSULA UNIFIED·NCES 062970004618
Point Vicente Elementary
30540 Rue de La Pierre, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275 · (310) 377-6972 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL334 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 91% of California public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.9:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.2:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
71 students
DISTRICT 12% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 68 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 61 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (68) is 19% larger than its 5th grade class (57).
Student demographics
74%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
79.5%
CA avg 49.1% . +0.5pp since 2014
Math
82.1%
CA avg 37.7% . +0.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 52.3% | 27.1% | 11.3% | 9.3% |
| Math | 57.0% | 25.2% | 11.3% | 6.6% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 79.5% | 82.1% |
| 2023-24 | 72.3% | 74.5% |
| 2022-23 | 72.7% | 74.3% |
| 2021-22 | 79.1% | 79.1% |
| 2018-19 | 87.3% | 83.1% |
| 2017-18 | 80.5% | 76.3% |
| 2016-17 | 83.8% | 84.4% |
| 2015-16 | 86.0% | 81.0% |
| 2014-15 | 79.0% | 82.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
77.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.1%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Point Vicente Elementary
Point Vicente Elementary's state test result (77.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Point Vicente Elementary this school | 334 | 21.3% | 77.1% |
| Roosevelt Elementary Burlingame | 311 | 24.1% | 70.2% |
| Riverview STEM Elementary Rancho Cordova | 357 | 16.5% | 85.8% |
| Santa Rita Elementary Los Altos | 326 | 18.7% | 75.6% |
| North Shoreview Montessori San Mateo | 325 | 17.5% | 75.1% |
| Benjamin Bubb Elementary Mountain View | 312 | 17.3% | 73.4% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Point Vicente Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.1% | #352 of 5,151 | #74 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 82.1% | #165 of 5,172 ▲ 268 | #32 of 1,129 ▲ 63 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.5% | #296 of 5,172 ▲ 298 | #69 of 1,129 ▲ 64 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.7pp | #2,766 of 5,116 | #685 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 334 | #4,436 of 5,915 | #963 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.9:1 | #238 of 5,352 | #65 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.3% | #175 of 5,354 | #25 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.3% | #5,103 of 5,625 | #1,200 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.6% | #1,089 of 1,139 | #167 of 181 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
334
+38 (+13%) vs 2020
-5% since 1990-91, when it was 350
Student : Teacher
17.9:1
was 17.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 334 | 18.7 | 17.9:1 | 21% (71) |
| 2023-24 | 335 | 17.6 | 19.0:1 | 16% (55) |
| 2022-23 | 356 | 17.7 | 20.2:1 | 13% (48) |
| 2020-21 | 296 | 17 | 17.4:1 | 7% (21) |
| 2017-18 | 332 | 14 | 23.7:1 | 14% (48) |
| 2015-16 | 374 | 16 | 23.4:1 | 9% (32) |
| 2010-11 | 399 | N/A | N/A | 9% (34) |
| 2000-01 | 373 | 21 | 17.8:1 | 4% (14) |
| 1990-91 | 350 | 13 | 26.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Point Vicente Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (332 to 334); teachers up 34% (14 to 18.7).
About Point Vicente Elementary
At 30540 Rue de La Pierre in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, Point Vicente Elementary operates as a small elementary school. Its 334 students are spread across kindergarten through 5. The typical figure for elementary schools in California is about 465 students.
Federal data list 17 schools in Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified, with 10,131 students enrolled.
The most common group at Point Vicente Elementary is White students, at 31%. Other groups make up 31% Asian, 20% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, and 3% Black. County-wide, about 31% of residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is a 74% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school reported 18.7 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25 and a ratio of 17.9:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. Eligible students account for 21% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Los Angeles County is 70%.
allk12 grades Point Vicente Elementary an A. The grade compares the school only with California public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Point Vicente Elementary falls in the middle 80% of California schools: 77.1% actual against 67.1% predicted.
Census estimates describe Los Angeles County this way: the median household income is $90,112, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Besides Point Vicente Elementary, Los Angeles County has 2,243 other public schools.
The closest public school to Point Vicente Elementary is Lunada Bay Elementary, about 1.0 miles away. Point Vicente Elementary is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, Point Vicente Elementary ranks 6th on proficiency.
Point Vicente Elementary falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at Point Vicente Elementary grew 13% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 296 to 334 students.
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Los Angeles County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
9,808,667
Census ACS
Median income
$90,112
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
2,244
1,265,907 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified
- Palos Verdes Peninsula HighHigh · 2,075 students
- Palos Verdes HighHigh · 1,484 students
- Ridgecrest IntermediateMiddle · 881 students
- Palos Verdes IntermediateMiddle · 735 students
- Miraleste IntermediateMiddle · 720 students
- Dapplegray ElementaryElementary · 639 students
Other schools in Rancho Palos Verdes
- Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson MiddleMiddle · 1,337 students
- Ridgecrest IntermediateMiddle · 881 students
- Miraleste IntermediateMiddle · 720 students
- Silver Spur ElementaryElementary · 540 students
- Soleado ElementaryElementary · 443 students
- Cornerstone at Pedregal ElementaryElementary · 411 students
Nearby schools
- Lunada Bay Elementary1.0 mi · 329
- Vista Grande Elementary1.0 mi · 355
- Palos Verdes Intermediate1.4 mi · 735
- Palos Verdes High1.8 mi · 1,484
- Ridgecrest Intermediate1.8 mi · 881
- Montemalaga Elementary2.5 mi · 416
Frequently asked questions
About Point Vicente ElementaryHow many students attend Point Vicente Elementary?
Point Vicente Elementary enrolls approximately 334 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Point Vicente Elementary serve?
Point Vicente Elementary serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Point Vicente Elementary have?
Point Vicente Elementary employs 19 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.9:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Point Vicente Elementary?
At Point Vicente Elementary, the student body is approximately 31% White, 20% Hispanic, 3% Black, 31% Asian, 14% Two or more.
What district is Point Vicente Elementary in?
Point Vicente Elementary is part of Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified.
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