South Pointe Middle

South Pointe Middle operates as a mid-sized 6-8 campus in Walnut, California, run under Walnut Valley Unified. Current enrollment sits at 979 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 49% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Within Walnut Valley Unified, which oversees 15 schools and 13,992 students, South Pointe Middle is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, South Pointe Middle logs that the largest single group is Asian, at 78% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 16% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 15% Asian, putting the school's mix visibly more Asian than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, South Pointe Middle has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting South Pointe Middle higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 25% of students at South Pointe Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, South Pointe Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.6%; this one delivers 77.4%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), South Pointe Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Walnut Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around South Pointe Middle. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), South Pointe Middle ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 70.6%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 11%: 882 students in 2018 compared to 979 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 63% to 78% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 23.1:1 in 2018 to 25.6:1 today.

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