Beacon Park

Beacon Park, a substantial elementary school in Irvine, California, one of the schools within Irvine Unified, teaches 1,065 students, covering grades K through 8. That puts it 129% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Irvine Unified, which oversees 44 schools and 37,948 students, Beacon Park is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Beacon Park lists that Asian students make up the majority at 66%. The remainder is composed of 16% White, 9% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 22% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Beacon Park shows 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 27.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Beacon Park higher than the state norm the norm. About 13% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Orange County's rate of about 55%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Beacon Park tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 71.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 73.0%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Orange County) logs that median household income runs about $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Beacon Park is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Cadence Park, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Beacon Park comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 72.7%.

Beacon Park operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Beacon Park has grew 27%, going from 839 students in 2018 to 1,065 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share expanded from 57% to 66%.

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