Orange County School of Computer Science

As an average-sized junior high in Yorba Linda, California, Orange County School of Computer Science caters to 753 students from grades 6 through 8, part of Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified.

Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified comprises 34 schools with combined enrollment of 22,665 students; Orange County School of Computer Science is among them.

Looking at the student body, Orange County School of Computer Science logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 45%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 33% White, 16% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 20.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 42% of students at Orange County School of Computer Science qualify 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 meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Orange County School of Computer Science tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.9%.

Across the wider county, Orange County reports that median household income runs about $116,289, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Orange County School of Computer Science is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Nearest neighbor: Fairmont Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Orange County School of Computer Science comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 66.3%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting. As a public charter, Orange County School of Computer Science runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Orange County School of Computer Science's enrollment has edged up 13% since 2018, when it stood at 668 (now 753). The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 33% to 45% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.7:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 in 2025.

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