Crescent Elementary

Crescent Elementary is an elementary campus of substantial scale in Anaheim, California, one of the schools within Orange Unified, educateing 805 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Crescent Elementary sits 73% above that benchmark.

Orange Unified runs 40 schools in total, collectively educating 23,790 students. Crescent Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Crescent Elementary logs that the largest single group is Asian at 33%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 31% White, 22% Hispanic, 13% multiracial. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the income-and-resources front, Crescent Elementary logs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 28.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Crescent Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Crescent Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 64.0%; actual is 82.1%, +18.1 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, Orange County reports that the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which Crescent Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Imperial Elementary, around 1.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Crescent Elementary comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 64.4%.

Crescent Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 6%: 763 students in 2018 compared to 805 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 43% to 31%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 27.3:1 in 2018 to 28.9:1 today.

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