Diamond Elementary

Diamond Elementary is a K-5 school of cozy scale in Santa Ana, California, one of the schools within Santa Ana Unified, teacheing 367 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 21% leaner than typical.

Diamond Elementary is one of 51 schools operated by Santa Ana Unified, a district that enrolls 35,993 students overall.

Demographically, Diamond Elementary logs that nearly all students (96%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 3% Asian. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.9:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Orange County's rate of about 55%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Diamond Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.6%, the actual is 25.9%, a residual of +2.2 points.

In the broader community, Orange County reports that median household income runs about $116,289, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Diamond Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Gerald P. Carr Intermediate, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Diamond Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 27.2%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Diamond Elementary's enrollment has decreased 30% since 2018, when it stood at 521 (now 367). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 28.9:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 today.

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