Canyon Vista Elementary

Set in Aliso Viejo, California, Canyon Vista Elementary is a reasonably sized K-5 school, run under Capistrano Unified. It educates 533 students across grades K through 5.

Capistrano Unified runs 58 schools in total, collectively educating 40,251 students. Canyon Vista Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Canyon Vista Elementary reports that 55% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 17% multiracial, 16% Asian, 12% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

In terms of school funding signals, Canyon Vista Elementary logs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.2:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 20% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Orange County's rate of about 55%.

With demographic context factored in, Canyon Vista Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.8%, the actual is 77.9%, a residual of +10.1 points.

Zooming out to the 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 roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which Canyon Vista Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Aliso Niguel High, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Canyon Vista Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 69.5%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Canyon Vista Elementary has contracted 8%, going from 581 students in 2018 to 533 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 30.6:1 in 2018 to 24.2:1 in 2025.

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