Rancho-Starbuck Intermediate

Rancho-Starbuck Intermediate, a mid-tier junior high in Whittier, California, one of the schools within Lowell Joint, works with 687 students, covering grades 7 through 8.

Lowell Joint comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,980 students; Rancho-Starbuck Intermediate is among them.

On demographics, Rancho-Starbuck Intermediate records that 71% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 18% White, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Rancho-Starbuck Intermediate higher than the state norm the norm. Around 57% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Rancho-Starbuck Intermediate performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.4%, the actual is 52.2%, a residual of +6.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Rancho-Starbuck Intermediate is one.

Olita Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Rancho-Starbuck Intermediate comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 49.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 9%: 756 students in 2018 compared to 687 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 25% to 18%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 25.7:1 in 2018 to 23.3:1 in 2025.

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