Dale Junior High

Dale Junior High is one of the high-enrollment junior highs in Anaheim, California, overseen by Anaheim Union High, with 1,002 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8. That puts it 52% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Across the 21 schools in Anaheim Union High (26,076 students total), Dale Junior High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Dale Junior High reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 15% Asian, 7% White, 3% Black. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Dale Junior High records 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Roughly 88% of students at Dale Junior High qualify 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 above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Dale Junior High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.9%; this one delivers 27.0%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Orange County) shows that 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%. Dale Junior High is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Cambridge Virtual Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Dale Junior High comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 39.8%.

Dale Junior High operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Dale Junior High's enrollment has fell 8% since 2018, when it stood at 1,084 (now 1,002). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged down from 79% to 74%.

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