Ball Junior High

As a mid-tier middle school in Anaheim, California, Ball Junior High serves 737 students from grades 7 through 8, part of Anaheim Union High.

Within Anaheim Union High, which oversees 21 schools and 26,076 students, Ball Junior High is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Ball Junior High shows that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 8% Asian, 5% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Ball Junior High shows 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.0:1. The state averages about 20.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 93% of students are eligible 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.

With demographic context factored in, Ball Junior High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.3%; this one delivers 12.4%.

In the broader community, census data for Orange County shows 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%. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which Ball Junior High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Palm Lane Global Academy, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Ball Junior High comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 31.3%.

Ball Junior High operates from an inner-city location.

Five-year trend. Ball Junior High's enrollment has declined 27% since 2018, when it stood at 1,005 (now 737). Class-load math has tightened: from 25.1:1 in 2018 to 21.0:1 in 2025.

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