Cambridge Elementary

Set in Orange, California, Cambridge Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community, part of Orange Unified. It teaches 415 students across grades K through 6.

Cambridge Elementary is one of 40 schools operated by Orange Unified, a district that instructs 23,790 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Cambridge Elementary lists that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 7% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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.

After controlling for student poverty, Cambridge Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.5%; this one delivers 25.5%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Orange County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Cambridge Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Nearest neighbor: Tomorrow's Leadership Collaborative (TLC) Charter, around 0.1 miles off. 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), Cambridge Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 34.0%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Cambridge Elementary's enrollment has shrank 18% since 2018, when it stood at 504 (now 415). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 29.6:1 in 2018 to 22.5:1 today.

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