Community Roots Academy

Community Roots Academy is one of the sprawling elementary-level communitys in Laguna Niguel, California, run under Community Roots Academy District, with 780 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 68% bigger than typical.

Community Roots Academy sits inside Community Roots Academy District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Demographically, Community Roots Academy logs that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 15% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 6% Asian. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

Looking at school resources, Community Roots Academy shows 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Community Roots Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 13% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Orange County's rate of about 55%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate median household income runs about $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which Community Roots Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Orange County Academy of Sciences and Arts, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies an outer-ring site. Community Roots Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.