Bryant Ranch Elementary

Bryant Ranch Elementary is an elementary-level community of average-sized scale in Yorba Linda, California, operated by Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified, teacheing 505 students in grades K through 5.

Bryant Ranch Elementary is one of 34 schools operated by Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified, a district that works with 22,665 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Bryant Ranch Elementary records that 32% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 32% White, 28% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Asian, putting the school's mix visibly more Asian than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 24% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bryant Ranch Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 65.2%; Bryant Ranch Elementary posts 81.8%, +16.6 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Orange County shows the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Bryant Ranch Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Nearest neighbor: California Republic Leadership Academy Yorba Linda, around 1.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bryant Ranch Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 67.7%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bryant Ranch Elementary has declined 16%, going from 602 students in 2018 to 505 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 51% to 32% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 30.1:1 in 2018 to 25.9:1 today.

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