College and Career Preparatory Academy

College and Career Preparatory Academy operates as an one-room-style 9-12 campus in Fountain Valley, California, overseen by Orange County Department of Education. Current enrollment sits at 168 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so College and Career Preparatory Academy sits 80% leaner than that benchmark.

College and Career Preparatory Academy is one of 5 schools operated by Orange County Department of Education, a district that hosts 2,290 students overall.

On demographics, College and Career Preparatory Academy shows that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder consists of 8% White, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting College and Career Preparatory Academy higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 96% of students at College and Career Preparatory Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), College and Career Preparatory Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Newhope Elementary, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around College and Career Preparatory Academy.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. College and Career Preparatory Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 19%: 207 students in 2018 compared to 168 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 72% to 88% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 34.5:1 in 2018 to 24.0:1 in 2025.

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