Silver Spur Elementary

Silver Spur Elementary is a moderately sized elementary campus in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, part of Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified. The school caters to 540 students in grades K through 5.

Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 10,131 students. Silver Spur Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Silver Spur Elementary logs that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 19% Asian, 15% multiracial, 12% Hispanic. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 31% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Silver Spur Elementary has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 4% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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%.

After controlling for student poverty, Silver Spur Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 77.3%, the actual is 87.7%, a residual of +10.4 points.

In the surrounding community, Los Angeles County reports that median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Silver Spur Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Cornerstone at Pedregal Elementary, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Silver Spur Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 82.1%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Silver Spur Elementary has held roughly steady, going from 540 students in 2018 to 540 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 58% to 53% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 25.7:1 in 2018 to 22.6:1 in 2025.

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