Alderwood Elementary

Located at 2005 Knollcrest, in Irvine, California, Alderwood Elementary is a sizable K-5 school that enrolls 770 students (grades K through 6), overseen by Irvine Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 66% bigger than typical.

Alderwood Elementary is one of 44 schools operated by Irvine Unified, a district that educates 37,948 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Alderwood Elementary reports that the largest single group is Asian at 37%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 36% White, 14% Hispanic, 12% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Asian, putting the school's mix noticeably more Asian than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 29.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 25% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Orange County's rate of about 55%.

With demographic context factored in, Alderwood Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.3%, the actual is 62.8%, a residual of -1.5 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Orange County) records that median household income runs about $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Alderwood Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Oak Creek Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Alderwood Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 71.0%.

Alderwood Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Alderwood Elementary has declined 7%, going from 824 students in 2018 to 770 in 2025. The White share of enrollment rose from 26% to 36% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 27.6:1 in 2018 to 29.6:1 today.

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