Ada Clegg Elementary

Ada Clegg Elementary, a moderately sized elementary school in Huntington Beach, California, part of Westminster, works with 443 students, covering grades K through 5.

Within Westminster, which oversees 16 schools and 7,864 students, Ada Clegg Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Ada Clegg Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Asian (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 34% Hispanic, 24% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 22% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Ada Clegg Elementary shows 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Ada Clegg Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 45.9%; Ada Clegg Elementary posts 64.5%, +18.7 points above that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Ada Clegg Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Helen Stacey Middle, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ada Clegg Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ada Clegg Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 54.3%.

Ada Clegg Elementary operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 21%: 560 students in 2018 compared to 443 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment increased from 31% to 37% over that span.

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