El Rancho Charter

El Rancho Charter is one of the big middle-grades schools in Anaheim, California, run under Orange Unified, with 1,144 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 74% larger than typical.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, El Rancho Charter lists that the largest single group is White at 35%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 27% Hispanic, 26% Asian, 8% multiracial, 3% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 30.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Roughly 32% of students at El Rancho Charter qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, El Rancho Charter sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.4%; this one delivers 70.3%.

Around the school, census data for Orange County shows median household income runs about $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. El Rancho Charter is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Nearest neighbor: Woodsboro Elementary, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, El Rancho Charter comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 67.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area. El Rancho Charter is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at El Rancho Charter has edged down 4%, going from 1,197 students in 2018 to 1,144 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 50% to 35%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 27.2:1 in 2018 to 30.0:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.