Chapman Hills Elementary

Chapman Hills Elementary operates as a close-knit elementary campus in Orange, California, one of the schools within Orange Unified. Current enrollment sits at 321 students spanning grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 31% leaner than the state mean of about 465.

Orange Unified runs 40 schools in total, collectively educating 23,790 students. Chapman Hills Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Chapman Hills Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 36% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 12% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Chapman Hills Elementary has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 27.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 37% 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 meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Chapman Hills Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 59.9%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Orange County) logs 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. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Chapman Hills Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Panorama Elementary, around 1.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Chapman Hills Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 57.8%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Chapman Hills Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 35% since 2018, when it stood at 495 (now 321). White enrollment moved from 43% to 39% across the same window.

On the community side, the feed for Chapman Hills Elementary typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.