A. E. Arnold Elementary

Set in Cypress, California, A. E. Arnold Elementary is a mid-sized elementary campus, one of the schools within Cypress Elementary. It works with 560 students across grades K through 6. That puts it 20% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Cypress Elementary runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,268 students. A. E. Arnold Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, A. E. Arnold Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 29% Asian, 22% White, 6% multiracial, 4% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, A. E. Arnold Elementary logs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting A. E. Arnold Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 53% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, A. E. Arnold Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.9%, the actual is 58.4%, a residual of +10.5 points.

In the area at large, census data for Orange County shows median household earnings sit near $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), A. E. Arnold Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Lexington Junior High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around A. E. Arnold Elementary. On composite proficiency, A. E. Arnold Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 54.9%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. A. E. Arnold Elementary's enrollment has contracted 24% since 2018, when it stood at 740 (now 560). Hispanic enrollment moved from 30% to 38% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.5:1 in 2018 to 24.4:1 today.

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