Beechwood Elementary

Set in Fullerton, California, Beechwood Elementary is a big elementary-level community, part of Fullerton Elementary. It educates 872 students across grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Beechwood Elementary sits 88% larger than that benchmark.

Within Fullerton Elementary, which oversees 20 schools and 11,247 students, Beechwood Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Beechwood Elementary logs that 46% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 20% White, 8% multiracial. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Beechwood Elementary reports 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 26.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Beechwood Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 28% of students at Beechwood Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Orange County's rate of about 55%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Beechwood Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.8%, the actual is 76.3%, a residual of +13.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate median household earnings sit near $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), Beechwood Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Rolling Hills Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Beechwood Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 56.7%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Beechwood Elementary has stayed largely flat, going from 881 students in 2018 to 872 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share rose from 32% to 46%. Class-load math has tightened: from 29.6:1 in 2018 to 26.3:1 in 2025.

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