Portola High

Located at 1001 Cadence, in Irvine, California, Portola High is a sizable secondary school that serves 2,693 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Irvine Unified. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 221% larger than typical.

Irvine Unified comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 37,948 students; Portola High is among them.

Looking at the student body, Portola High lists that the largest single group is Asian, at 62% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 18% White, 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Asian, putting the school's mix visibly more Asian than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 102 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 26.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Portola High higher than the state norm the norm. Around 18% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Orange County's rate of about 55%.

With demographic context factored in, Portola High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 69.0%; this one delivers 74.7%.

In the area at large, census data for Orange County shows median household earnings sit near $116,289, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Portola High is one campus in the mix.

Solis Park is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Portola High ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 68.8%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Portola High's enrollment has rose 212% since 2018, when it stood at 863 (now 2,693). White enrollment moved from 22% to 18% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 26.4:1 today.

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