Van Nuys Middle

Located at 5435 Vesper Ave., in Van Nuys, California, Van Nuys Middle is a reasonably sized intermediate school that instructs 726 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Los Angeles Unified.

Los Angeles Unified runs 784 schools in total, collectively educating 406,887 students. Van Nuys Middle is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Van Nuys Middle lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (85%); the rest reads as 7% White, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Van Nuys Middle has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Van Nuys Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Van Nuys Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.2%; this one delivers 29.1%.

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%. Van Nuys Middle is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: Kester Avenue Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Van Nuys Middle comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 54.7%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Van Nuys Middle has decreased 33%, going from 1,083 students in 2018 to 726 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 25.3:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 today.

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