Brywood Elementary

Brywood Elementary is a mid-sized elementary campus in Irvine, California, overseen by Irvine Unified. The school teaches 578 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 24% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Irvine Unified runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 37,948 students. Brywood Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Brywood Elementary logs that the largest single group is Asian, at 57% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 18% White, 12% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, 3% Black. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 22% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 27.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 18% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Orange County's rate of about 55%.

With demographic context factored in, Brywood Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 69.0%; this one delivers 77.2%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Orange County) records that median household income runs about $116,289, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), Brywood Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Irvine Chinese Immersion Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Brywood Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 73.2%.

Brywood Elementary operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 3%: 563 students in 2018 compared to 578 in 2025.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.