Suva Intermediate

As a middle-of-the-pack 6-8 campus in Bell Gardens, California, Suva Intermediate instructs 650 students from grades 6 through 8, run under Montebello Unified.

Suva Intermediate is one of 29 schools operated by Montebello Unified, a district that instructs 19,149 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Suva Intermediate lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%). That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Suva Intermediate has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Suva Intermediate higher than the state norm the norm. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Suva Intermediate sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.8%; this one delivers 21.1%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate 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%. Suva Intermediate is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Suva Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Suva Intermediate comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 34.5%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Suva Intermediate has shrank 24%, going from 855 students in 2018 to 650 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 30.6:1 in 2018 to 22.8:1 in 2025.

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