El Dorado High

Set in Placentia, California, El Dorado High is a large secondary school, part of Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified. It caters to 1,998 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 138% above typical.

Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified comprises 34 schools with combined enrollment of 22,665 students; El Dorado High is among them.

On demographics, El Dorado High reports that 40% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 34% White, 20% Asian, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school employs 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting El Dorado High higher than the state norm the norm. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), El Dorado High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.3%, the actual is 60.8%, a residual of +2.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Orange County put the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. El Dorado High is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Nearest neighbor: Charles Wagner Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, El Dorado High comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 69.3%.

El Dorado High operates from a suburban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at El Dorado High has stayed largely flat, going from 1,955 students in 2018 to 1,998 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 50% to 34% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.