Buena Park Middle

Buena Park Middle, an average-sized 6-8 campus in Buena Park, California, overseen by Buena Park Elementary, caters to 633 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Within Buena Park Elementary, which oversees 7 schools and 3,675 students, Buena Park Middle is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Buena Park Middle shows that 79% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 10% Asian, 4% Black, 4% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Buena Park Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.3%; this one delivers 26.4%.

In the area at large, Orange County reports that 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%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Buena Park Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Arthur F. Corey Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Buena Park Middle. On composite proficiency, Buena Park Middle comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.8%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Buena Park Middle has declined 42%, going from 1,087 students in 2018 to 633 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 70% to 79% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 26.1:1 in 2018 to 23.7:1 in 2025.

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