Eastbluff Elementary

Set in Newport Beach, California, Eastbluff Elementary is a tight-knit elementary campus, one of the schools within Newport-Mesa Unified. It hosts 364 students across grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Eastbluff Elementary sits 22% below that benchmark.

Within Newport-Mesa Unified, which oversees 31 schools and 17,540 students, Eastbluff Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Eastbluff Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 60% of enrollment; the rest reads as 14% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 11% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.6:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 39% of students at Eastbluff Elementary 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 meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Eastbluff Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.1%; this one delivers 57.2%.

Across the wider county, Orange County reports that median household earnings sit near $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. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which Eastbluff Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Corona del Mar High, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Eastbluff Elementary. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Eastbluff Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 71.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Eastbluff Elementary's enrollment has shrank 13% since 2018, when it stood at 420 (now 364). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 69% to 60% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 22.1:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for Eastbluff Elementary typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.