NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA

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10 public K-12 schools in Rancho Palos Verdes from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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10
Schools
5,676
Students
44.7/100
Avg Resource Index
23.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Resource breadth with tighter class loads

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Rancho Palos Verdes has more public-school enrollment than 61% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Rancho Palos Verdes's average Resource Investment Index ranks above most listed cities even though its student-teacher ratio is on the more crowded side of the national city distribution. That is a useful mismatch, not a contradiction: counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance can lift the composite while classroom staffing remains comparatively tight. Families should inspect the component scores on each school profile instead of reading the city index as a shorthand for small classes.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

7 of Rancho Palos Verdes's 10 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 3 middle and 0 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Rancho Palos Verdes's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 69th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 4th percentile. The 65-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 39%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
69th percentile
Teacher staffing
4th percentile

Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle accounts for 23.6% of all Rancho Palos Verdes public-school enrollment

That concentration means Rancho Palos Verdes-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Middle. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Rancho Palos Verdes school enrollment varies 4.6× across entities

Rancho Palos Verdes school enrollment ranges from 289 students (lowest) to 1,337 students (highest), a spread of 1,048 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Rancho Palos Verdes student-teacher ratio is 23.6:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Soleado Elementary 53
2. Silver Spur Elementary 52
3. Point Vicente Elementary 52
4. Cornerstone at Pedregal Elementary 49
5. Vista Grande Elementary 49
6. Mira Catalina Elementary 45
7. Miraleste Intermediate 42
8. Ridgecrest Intermediate 41
9. Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle 37
10. Crestwood Street Steam Magnet 27

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Rancho Palos Verdes

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Point Vicente Elementary 74.3/100
  2. 2 Miraleste Intermediate 71.7/100
  3. 3 Soleado Elementary 68.0/100
  4. 4 Cornerstone at Pedregal Elementary 66.3/100
  5. 5 Mira Catalina Elementary 65.7/100

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Which Rancho Palos Verdes school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Soleado Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Rancho Palos Verdes schools in this federal-data comparison at 53/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA? ▼

Rancho Palos Verdes has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,676 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 23.6:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.