El Modena High

El Modena High is one of the big senior highs in Orange, California, run under Orange Unified, with 1,795 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so El Modena High sits 114% bigger than that benchmark.

Orange Unified runs 40 schools in total, collectively educating 23,790 students. El Modena High is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, El Modena High lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 17% White, 7% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 84 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.4:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Orange County's rate of about 55%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, El Modena High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.4%, the actual is 45.9%, a residual of +7.5 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate 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%. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which El Modena High is one.

The closest other public school is Esplanade Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around El Modena High. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts El Modena High at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 42.8%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. El Modena High's enrollment has fell 16% since 2018, when it stood at 2,133 (now 1,795). Hispanic enrollment moved from 64% to 73% across the same window.

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