Soleado Elementary

Set in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, Soleado Elementary is a medium-sized primary school, operated by Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified. It hosts 443 students across grades K through 5.

Across the 17 schools in Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified (10,131 students total), Soleado Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Soleado Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Asian (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 18% White, 17% Hispanic, 15% multiracial. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 13% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Soleado Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 71.6%; actual is 87.5%, +16.0 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, census data for Los Angeles County shows median household earnings sit near $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Soleado Elementary is one.

Palos Verdes Peninsula High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Soleado Elementary. On composite proficiency, Soleado Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 83.4%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Soleado Elementary has decreased 5%, going from 467 students in 2018 to 443 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment contracted from 54% to 49% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 25.9:1 in 2018 to 22.1:1 in 2025.

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