Arroyo Elementary

Set in Santa Ana, California, Arroyo Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school, operated by Tustin Unified. It works with 585 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 26% larger than the state mean of about 465.

Within Tustin Unified, which oversees 28 schools and 21,220 students, Arroyo Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Arroyo Elementary lists that the largest single group is White at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 23% Hispanic, 19% multiracial, 14% Asian. Compared to Orange County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 27.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 15% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Arroyo Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.8%, the actual is 76.9%, a residual of +6.0 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, 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), Arroyo Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Foothill High, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Arroyo Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 65.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Arroyo Elementary has fell 4%, going from 612 students in 2018 to 585 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 61% to 44% over that span.

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