Cox (James H.) Elementary

Cox (James H.) Elementary is one of the mid-sized primary schools in Fountain Valley, California, one of the schools within Fountain Valley Elementary, with 607 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 31% larger than typical.

Fountain Valley Elementary comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 6,010 students; Cox (James H.) Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Cox (James H.) Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Asian (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 27% Hispanic, 21% White, 11% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Asian, putting the school's mix visibly more Asian than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Cox (James H.) Elementary reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 36% of students at Cox (James H.) Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cox (James H.) Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.2%; this one delivers 66.8%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Orange County put the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Cox (James H.) Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Masuda (Kazuo) Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cox (James H.) Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cox (James H.) Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 63.4%.

Cox (James H.) Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Looking at the recent track record. Cox (James H.) Elementary's enrollment has contracted 18% since 2018, when it stood at 736 (now 607). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 21% to 27%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 28.3:1 in 2018 to 24.3:1 today.

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