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Dr. Albert Schweitzer Leadership Academy
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 31% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Dr. Albert Schweitzer Leadership Academy
Dr. Albert Schweitzer Leadership Academy operates as an average-sized elementary campus in Anaheim, California, one of the schools within Magnolia Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 521 students spanning grades K through 6.
Magnolia Elementary runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 4,765 students. Dr. Albert Schweitzer Leadership Academy is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Dr. Albert Schweitzer Leadership Academy lists that 74% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder is composed of 12% Asian, 6% White, 5% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Dr. Albert Schweitzer Leadership Academy has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Dr. Albert Schweitzer Leadership Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 81% of students at Dr. Albert Schweitzer Leadership Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
After controlling for student poverty, Dr. Albert Schweitzer Leadership Academy is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 31.4%; this one delivers 48.7%, a residual of +17.3 points.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate median household earnings sit near $116,289, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Dr. Albert Schweitzer Leadership Academy is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).
The closest other public school is Lord Baden-Powell, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Dr. Albert Schweitzer Leadership Academy at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 35.9%.
The campus sits in a downtown setting.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 17%: 625 students in 2018 compared to 521 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 26.0:1 in 2018 to 20.8:1 today.
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