Brookhurst Junior High

As a mid-tier junior high in Anaheim, California, Brookhurst Junior High caters to 724 students from grades 7 through 8, overseen by Anaheim Union High.

Anaheim Union High comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 26,076 students; Brookhurst Junior High is among them.

On the student-mix side, Brookhurst Junior High reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%); the rest is composed of 6% Asian, 4% White, 2% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Brookhurst Junior High higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 91% of students at Brookhurst Junior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Brookhurst Junior High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.4%; this one delivers 18.9%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate median household income runs about $116,289, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Brookhurst Junior High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Gauer (Melbourne A.) Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Brookhurst Junior High at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 36.9%.

Brookhurst Junior High operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Brookhurst Junior High's enrollment has fell 32% since 2018, when it stood at 1,063 (now 724). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 80% to 86%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 25.3:1 in 2018 to 22.6:1 in 2025.

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