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Best kept secret at Arthur F. Corey Elementary?
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Enrollment
341
Elementary
DISTRICT 480 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BUENA PARK ELEMENTARY·NCES 060636000554
Arthur F. Corey Elementary
7351 Holder St., Buena Park, CA 90620 · (714) 522-8389 · Orange County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL341 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 88% of California public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
24.4:1
14 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.6:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
74%
252 students
DISTRICT 81% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 79 | 23% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 66 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is 20% larger than its 5th grade class (66).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
50.3%
CA avg 49.1% . +7.3pp since 2014
Math
52.0%
CA avg 37.7% . +12.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 12 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 24.0% | 26.3% | 28.1% | 21.6% |
| Math | 26.9% | 25.1% | 26.3% | 21.6% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.3% | 52.0% |
| 2023-24 | 51.8% | 56.8% |
| 2022-23 | 41.7% | 44.1% |
| 2021-22 | 49.8% | 40.9% |
| 2018-19 | 49.7% | 42.1% |
| 2017-18 | 54.8% | 46.7% |
| 2016-17 | 51.4% | 46.2% |
| 2015-16 | 53.0% | 45.0% |
| 2014-15 | 43.0% | 40.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
53.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.2%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 36% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Arthur F. Corey Elementary
Arthur F. Corey Elementary's state test result (53.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur F. Corey Elementary this school | 341 | 73.9% | 53.5% |
| Wren Avenue Elementary Concord | 349 | 76.2% | 16.8% |
| Juarez (Benito) Elementary Cerritos | 295 | 72.5% | 35.9% |
| Ruus Elementary Hayward | 361 | 78.1% | 23.6% |
| Grant Elementary San Lorenzo | 322 | 68.9% | 35.8% |
| Del Rey Elementary San Lorenzo | 373 | 69.2% | 33.0% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Arthur F. Corey Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.5% | #1,479 of 5,151 | #192 of 381 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #1,457 of 5,172 ▼ 310 | #188 of 382 ▼ 31 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.3% | #2,007 of 5,172 ▼ 238 | #224 of 382 ▼ 10 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.9pp | #1,386 of 5,116 | #78 of 381 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 341 | #4,369 of 5,915 | #342 of 404 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.4:1 | #4,008 of 5,352 | #229 of 398 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.6% | #1,879 of 5,354 | #160 of 398 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.9% | #2,700 of 5,625 | #153 of 400 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -37.7% | #204 of 3,837 | #19 of 324 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
341
-107 (-24%) vs 2020
-34% since 1990-91, when it was 520
Student : Teacher
24.4:1
was 20.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 341 | 14 | 24.4:1 | 74% (252) |
| 2023-24 | 363 | 14 | 25.9:1 | 72% (263) |
| 2022-23 | 408 | 17.3 | 23.6:1 | 74% (300) |
| 2020-21 | 448 | 22 | 20.4:1 | 56% (252) |
| 2017-18 | 547 | 21 | 26.1:1 | 59% (323) |
| 2015-16 | 580 | 22 | 26.4:1 | 60% (347) |
| 2010-11 | 607 | N/A | N/A | 58% (351) |
| 2000-01 | 703 | 33 | 21.3:1 | 38% (270) |
| 1990-91 | 520 | 22 | 23.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Arthur F. Corey Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 38% (547 to 341); teachers down 33% (21 to 14).
About Arthur F. Corey Elementary
Arthur F. Corey Elementary is a small elementary school in California, located in Buena Park. It reported 341 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in California have about 465 students on average; enrollment here is 27% lower.
Buena Park Elementary counts 7 schools and 3,675 students, including Arthur F. Corey Elementary.
More than half of the students at Arthur F. Corey Elementary are Hispanic (59%). Other reported shares: 20% Asian, 10% White, 5% Black, and 5% multiracial. That compares with about 34% Hispanic among all Orange County residents. The diversity index for Arthur F. Corey Elementary is 60%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
With 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 24.4:1. The average for elementary schools in California is 22.3:1, so this school has more students per teacher. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Arthur F. Corey Elementary, 74% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 55% for public schools in Orange County.
Among California public elementary schools, Arthur F. Corey Elementary outscored 88%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Arthur F. Corey Elementary scores 17.3 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results: 53.5% actual versus 36.2% predicted. That puts it in the top 10% of California schools on BeatsExpectations.
In the wider Orange County area, the median household earns about $116,289 a year, about 44% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Arthur F. Corey Elementary shares Orange County with 648 other public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Raymond Temple Elementary, is about 0.4 miles. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Arthur F. Corey Elementary is 3rd of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 448 to 341, a 24% decline. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 20.4:1; by 2024-25 it was 24.4:1.
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Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
3,165,820
Census ACS
Median income
$116,289
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
44%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
649
430,458 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Buena Park Elementary
- Charles G. Emery ElementaryElementary · 646 students
- Gordon H. Beatty MiddleMiddle · 641 students
- Buena Park MiddleMiddle · 633 students
- James A. Whitaker ElementaryElementary · 559 students
- Carl E. Gilbert ElementaryElementary · 490 students
- Mabel L. Pendleton ElementaryElementary · 365 students
Other schools in Buena Park
- Buena Park HighHigh · 1,682 students
- Charles G. Emery ElementaryElementary · 646 students
- Gordon H. Beatty MiddleMiddle · 641 students
- Buena Park MiddleMiddle · 633 students
- Buena Terra ElementaryElementary · 627 students
- James A. Whitaker ElementaryElementary · 559 students
Nearby schools
- Raymond Temple Elementary0.4 mi · 431
- Buena Park Middle0.6 mi · 633
- Hope0.7 mi · 231
- Buena Terra Elementary0.8 mi · 627
- George B. Miller Elementary0.8 mi · 502
- Carl E. Gilbert Elementary1.2 mi · 490
Frequently asked questions
About Arthur F. Corey ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Arthur F. Corey Elementary?
Arthur F. Corey Elementary enrolls approximately 341 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Arthur F. Corey Elementary serve?
Arthur F. Corey Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Arthur F. Corey Elementary?
Approximately 24.4:1 students per teacher at Arthur F. Corey Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Arthur F. Corey Elementary?
At Arthur F. Corey Elementary, the student body is approximately 10% White, 59% Hispanic, 5% Black, 20% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Arthur F. Corey Elementary?
Arthur F. Corey Elementary is overseen by Buena Park Elementary in Orange County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.