Ridgecrest Intermediate

Ridgecrest Intermediate, a mid-tier intermediate school in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, one of the schools within Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified, enrolls 881 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 34% bigger than typical.

Ridgecrest Intermediate is one of 17 schools operated by Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified, a district that teaches 10,131 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Ridgecrest Intermediate logs that the largest single group is Asian at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 22% White, 11% multiracial, 11% Hispanic, 3% Black. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Ridgecrest Intermediate higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 10% of students at Ridgecrest Intermediate qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Ridgecrest Intermediate performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.4%, the actual is 79.9%, a residual of +6.5 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) shows that median household income runs about $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Ridgecrest Intermediate is one.

The closest other public school is Soleado Elementary, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ridgecrest Intermediate. On composite proficiency, Ridgecrest Intermediate comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 83.1%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Ridgecrest Intermediate's enrollment has fell 3% since 2018, when it stood at 910 (now 881). White enrollment moved from 35% to 22% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 27.0:1 in 2018 to 24.3:1 today.

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