Advanced Learning Academy

Advanced Learning Academy is an unified-grade school of compact scale in Santa Ana, California, part of Santa Ana Unified, serveing 363 students in grades K through 12. That puts it 40% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 602 students.

Across the 51 schools in Santa Ana Unified (35,993 students total), Advanced Learning Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Advanced Learning Academy logs that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 2% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

On the resource side, The school employs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. The state averages around 18.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Advanced Learning Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.0%, the actual is 32.0%, a residual of +6.0 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Orange County put the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Advanced Learning Academy is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Nearest neighbor: Wallace R. Davis Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Advanced Learning Academy at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 21.5%.

Advanced Learning Academy operates from a downtown location. Advanced Learning Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 356 students in 2018 compared to 363 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 29.7:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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