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If you had an hour of school board time for Cox (James H.) Elementary, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
607
Elementary
DISTRICT 543 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FOUNTAIN VALLEY ELEMENTARY·NCES 061422001623
Cox (James H.) Elementary
17615 Los Jardines East, Fountain Valley, CA 92708 · (714) 378-4240 · Orange County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL607 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 93% of California public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
24.3:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 25.2:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
36%
217 students
DISTRICT 27% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 132 | 22% |
| Grade 1 | 91 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 84 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 96 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 93 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 111 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (132) is 19% larger than its 5th grade class (111).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
68.5%
CA avg 49.1% . +4.5pp since 2014
Math
70.8%
CA avg 37.7% . +14.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 15 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 41.4% | 27.1% | 14.2% | 17.3% |
| Math | 41.2% | 29.6% | 15.6% | 13.6% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.5% | 70.8% |
| 2023-24 | 66.3% | 66.9% |
| 2022-23 | 69.9% | 72.6% |
| 2021-22 | 60.4% | 63.2% |
| 2018-19 | 67.4% | 72.2% |
| 2017-18 | 70.9% | 73.6% |
| 2016-17 | 66.3% | 71.2% |
| 2015-16 | 63.0% | 68.0% |
| 2014-15 | 64.0% | 56.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
68.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.6%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Cox (James H.) Elementary
Cox (James H.) Elementary's state test result (68.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cox (James H.) Elementary this school | 607 | 35.7% | 68.2% |
| Myford Elementary Irvine | 542 | 38.2% | 72.0% |
| Frank Vessels Elementary Cypress | 650 | 37.7% | 65.4% |
| Heritage Elementary Tustin | 567 | 32.5% | 69.7% |
| Theodore Judah Elementary Folsom | 600 | 32.3% | 69.2% |
| Falcon Academy of Science and Technology Brea | 544 | 35.3% | 70.8% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Cox (James H.) Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 68.2% | #737 of 5,151 | #119 of 381 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.8% | #564 of 5,172 ▲ 169 | #86 of 382 ▲ 23 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.5% | #824 of 5,172 ▲ 75 | #129 of 382 ▲ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.8pp | #947 of 5,116 | #51 of 381 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 607 | #1,336 of 5,915 | #95 of 404 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.3:1 | #3,952 of 5,352 | #225 of 398 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.1% | #512 of 5,354 | #34 of 398 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.7% | #4,522 of 5,625 | #271 of 400 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.5% | #1,701 of 3,837 | #156 of 324 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
607
-42 (-6%) vs 2020
-9% since 1990-91, when it was 670
Student : Teacher
24.3:1
was 28.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 607 | 25 | 24.3:1 | 36% (217) |
| 2023-24 | 621 | 25 | 24.8:1 | 30% (189) |
| 2022-23 | 628 | 24 | 26.2:1 | 29% (181) |
| 2020-21 | 649 | 23 | 28.2:1 | 33% (212) |
| 2017-18 | 736 | 26 | 28.3:1 | 31% (230) |
| 2015-16 | 734 | 26 | 28.2:1 | 30% (221) |
| 2010-11 | 765 | N/A | N/A | 30% (233) |
| 2000-01 | 678 | 30 | 22.6:1 | 16% (110) |
| 1990-91 | 670 | 23 | 29.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cox (James H.) Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (736 to 607); teachers down 4% (26 to 25).
About Cox (James H.) Elementary
Among the schools in Fountain Valley, California, is Cox (James H.) Elementary, a mid-sized elementary school. Its grade span covers kindergarten through 5, with 607 students on the rolls. Across elementary schools in California, the average enrollment is about 465.
The Fountain Valley Elementary system has 10 schools and 6,010 students.
About 40% of students at Cox (James H.) Elementary are Asian, the largest single group. Other reported shares: 27% Hispanic, 21% White, and 11% multiracial. Orange County's residents are about 22% Asian, 18 points below the school's share. The diversity index for Cox (James H.) Elementary is 71%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Cox (James H.) Elementary reported 25 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 24.3:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in California is 22.3:1. There are 217 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 36% of enrollment. The 55% average for public schools in Orange County is 19 points higher.
Among California public elementary schools, Cox (James H.) Elementary outscored 93%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Cox (James H.) Elementary is 9.6 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (68.2% versus 58.6%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in California.
For Orange County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $116,289 a year, roughly 44% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Cox (James H.) Elementary, Orange County has 649 public schools.
Masuda (Kazuo) Middle, about 0.3 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Cox (James H.) Elementary places 5th of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
NCES assigns Cox (James H.) Elementary the locale City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Cox (James H.) Elementary had a net loss of 42 students, or 6%. Its ratio of students to teachers was 28.2:1 in 2020-21, and 24.3:1 in 2024-25.
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Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
3,165,820
Census ACS
Median income
$116,289
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
44%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
649
430,458 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fountain Valley Elementary
- Masuda (Kazuo) MiddleMiddle · 768 students
- Fulton (Harry C.) MiddleMiddle · 753 students
- Talbert (Samuel E.) MiddleMiddle · 690 students
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- Newland (William T.) ElementaryElementary · 531 students
- Plavan (Urbain H.) ElementaryElementary · 530 students
Other schools in Fountain Valley
- Fountain Valley HighHigh · 3,171 students
- Los Amigos HighHigh · 1,430 students
- Masuda (Kazuo) MiddleMiddle · 768 students
- Fulton (Harry C.) MiddleMiddle · 753 students
- Vista View MiddleMiddle · 724 students
- Ethan B. Allen ElementaryElementary · 637 students
Nearby schools
- Masuda (Kazuo) Middle0.3 mi · 768
- Mamie L. Northcutt Elementary0.9 mi · 400
- Valley Vista High1.2 mi · 263
- Gisler (Robert) Elementary1.2 mi · 470
- Los Amigos High1.2 mi · 1,430
- Fountain Valley High1.3 mi · 3,171
Frequently asked questions
About Cox (James H.) ElementaryHow many students attend Cox (James H.) Elementary?
Cox (James H.) Elementary enrolls approximately 607 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Cox (James H.) Elementary serve?
Cox (James H.) Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Cox (James H.) Elementary?
Approximately 24.3:1 students per teacher at Cox (James H.) Elementary.
How diverse is Cox (James H.) Elementary?
Cox (James H.) Elementary reports a student body of 21% White, 27% Hispanic, 1% Black, 40% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees Cox (James H.) Elementary?
Cox (James H.) Elementary is overseen by Fountain Valley Elementary in Orange County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.