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Enrollment
1,337
Middle
DISTRICT 835 · STATE 659
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOS ANGELES UNIFIED·NCES 062271002960
Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle
28014 Montereina Dr., Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275 · (310) 241-1900 · Los Angeles County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,337 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 95% of California public middle schools
- A-Test 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.
- A-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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
20.4:1
66 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.2:1 · STATE 20.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
906 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 464 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 460 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 413 | 31% |
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · 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
School pathway
Based on published attendance-zone data from Los Angeles Unified. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
71.7%
CA avg 49.1% . +11.7pp since 2014
Math
55.9%
CA avg 37.7% . +10.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 12 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 11 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 36.0% | 35.6% | 15.2% | 13.1% |
| Math | 35.4% | 20.5% | 20.2% | 23.9% |
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 | 71.7% | 55.9% |
| 2023-24 | 63.5% | 51.5% |
| 2022-23 | 65.7% | 49.8% |
| 2021-22 | 68.6% | 48.6% |
| 2018-19 | 67.0% | 50.1% |
| 2017-18 | 64.0% | 49.4% |
| 2016-17 | 61.1% | 48.5% |
| 2015-16 | 63.0% | 48.0% |
| 2014-15 | 60.0% | 45.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
60.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.8%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 40% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in California's top 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 Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle
Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle's state test result (60.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle this school | 1,337 | 67.8% | 60.6% |
| Ruth Musser Middle Rancho Cucamonga | 941 | 68.7% | 42.4% |
| Wayne Ruble Middle Fontana | 1,394 | 77.0% | 41.6% |
| Bancroft Middle San Leandro | 948 | 79.0% | 26.0% |
| Tenaya Middle Fresno | 876 | 71.8% | 30.0% |
| Cope Middle Redlands | 1,191 | 63.3% | 40.9% |
Matched among California middle 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 Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.6% | #211 of 1,224 | #42 of 248 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.9% | #219 of 1,227 ▲ 15 | #43 of 248 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.7% | #163 of 1,227 ▲ 83 | #29 of 248 ▲ 23 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.2pp | #294 of 1,214 | #96 of 247 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,337 | #41 of 1,377 | #15 of 317 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.4:1 | #522 of 1,279 | #120 of 301 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.9% | #351 of 1,278 | #51 of 301 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.8% | #749 of 1,329 | #228 of 312 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.4% | #275 of 930 | #83 of 213 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
1,337
-267 (-17%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 1,738
Student : Teacher
20.4:1
was 23.3:1
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 | 1,337 | 65.6 | 20.4:1 | 68% (906) |
| 2023-24 | 1,295 | 62.5 | 20.7:1 | 58% (750) |
| 2022-23 | 1,285 | 64.6 | 19.9:1 | 58% (741) |
| 2020-21 | 1,604 | 69 | 23.3:1 | 57% (910) |
| 2017-18 | 1,723 | 66 | 26.1:1 | 66% (1,144) |
| 2015-16 | 1,904 | 70 | 27.2:1 | 62% (1,174) |
| 2010-11 | 1,760 | N/A | N/A | 57% (995) |
| 2000-01 | 1,837 | 75 | 24.5:1 | 41% (759) |
| 1990-91 | 1,738 | 69 | 25.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (1,723 to 1,337); teachers down 1% (66 to 65.6).
About Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle
Students in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, attend Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle, a high-enrollment middle school. The grade span is 6 through 8, and enrollment is 1,337 students. Average enrollment for middle schools in California is about 659, so this school runs 103% larger than that.
Los Angeles Unified has 784 schools; together they serve 406,887 students.
Hispanic students are the majority at Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle, with 57% of enrollment. It is also 15% Black, 13% Asian, 11% White, and 5% multiracial. Los Angeles County's residents are about 48% Hispanic, 8 points below the school's share. Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle's diversity index is 63%, against a US figure of 70%.
Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle's 65.6 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 20.4:1. For comparison, middle schools in California average 20.7:1. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 68%. For comparison, public schools in Los Angeles County average 70%.
Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle is graded A+ by allk12, scoring above 95% of California public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate on state tests for Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle is 39.8%. It actually posts 60.6%, which is 20.8 points higher and in the top 10% of California schools.
According to the American Community Survey, in Los Angeles County, the median household income is $90,112, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. There are 2,244 public schools in Los Angeles County, enrolling about 1,265,907 students in all.
William J. Johnston Community Day is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles away. Within five miles of Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle, there are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle is ahead of the 56.8% nearby average, ranking 4th of 8.
Federal data place Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment dropped 17% from its 2020-21 level of 1,604. The ratio of students to teachers went from 23.3:1 to 20.4:1 over the same years.
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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
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Frequently asked questions
About Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson MiddleHow large is Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle?
Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle enrolls approximately 1,337 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle serve?
Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle?
Approximately 20.4:1 students per teacher at Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle?
At Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle, the student body is approximately 11% White, 57% Hispanic, 15% Black, 13% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle?
Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle is overseen by Los Angeles Unified in Los Angeles County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.