Rivera Middle

Rivera Middle is an intimate middle-grades school in Pico Rivera, California, operated by El Rancho Unified. The school serves 544 students in grades 6 through 8.

Across the 13 schools in El Rancho Unified (6,716 students total), Rivera Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Rivera Middle logs that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.2:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 87% of students at Rivera Middle qualify 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 north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Rivera Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.7%, the actual is 26.0%, a residual of -1.7 points.

Around the school, Los Angeles County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Rivera Middle is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Rivera Elementary, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rivera Middle. On composite proficiency, Rivera Middle comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.5%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 28%: 756 students in 2018 compared to 544 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 26.2:1 in 2018 to 22.2:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Rivera Middle typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.