Creekside High

Set in Irvine, California, Creekside High is a micro-enrollment high school, part of Irvine Unified. It educates 78 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Creekside High sits 91% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Irvine Unified, which oversees 44 schools and 37,948 students, Creekside High is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Creekside High lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 42%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 23% White, 13% Black, 12% multiracial, 9% Asian. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which Creekside High is one.

The closest other public school is Alternative Education-San Joaquin High, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Creekside High has ticked down 11%, going from 88 students in 2018 to 78 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 30% to 23% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 10.2:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 in 2025.

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