Rancho Pico Junior High

Rancho Pico Junior High operates as an average-sized junior high in Stevenson Ranch, California, run under William S. Hart Union High. Current enrollment sits at 842 students spanning grades 7 through 8. That puts it 28% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Across the 16 schools in William S. Hart Union High (20,465 students total), Rancho Pico Junior High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Rancho Pico Junior High logs that 34% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 30% Asian, 23% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Black. Compared to Los Angeles County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Roughly 13% of students at Rancho Pico Junior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, Rancho Pico Junior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.5%, the actual is 70.7%, a residual of -0.8 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate 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), Rancho Pico Junior High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is West Ranch High, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rancho Pico Junior High ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 72.7%.

Rancho Pico Junior High operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rancho Pico Junior High has declined 18%, going from 1,033 students in 2018 to 842 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 42% to 34% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.8:1 in 2018 to 23.5:1 today.

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