Benjamin F. Beswick Elementary

Located at 1362 Mitchell Ave., in Tustin, California, Benjamin F. Beswick Elementary is a moderately sized K-5 school that enrolls 426 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Tustin Unified.

Benjamin F. Beswick Elementary is one of 28 schools operated by Tustin Unified, a district that teaches 21,220 students overall.

On demographics, Benjamin F. Beswick Elementary logs that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 6% Asian, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 91% of students at Benjamin F. Beswick Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Benjamin F. Beswick Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.2%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Orange County shows the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which Benjamin F. Beswick Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Tustin High, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Benjamin F. Beswick Elementary comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 38.0%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 18%: 521 students in 2018 compared to 426 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 28.9:1 in 2018 to 25.1:1 in 2025.

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