El Toro High

El Toro High operates as a big senior high in Lake Forest, California, part of Saddleback Valley Unified. Current enrollment sits at 1,902 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so El Toro High sits 127% above that benchmark.

Saddleback Valley Unified runs 33 schools in total, collectively educating 22,646 students. El Toro High is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, El Toro High shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 32% White, 14% Asian, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, El Toro High lists 89 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Roughly 50% of students at El Toro High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, El Toro High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.6%, the actual is 52.8%, a residual of +3.2 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Orange County shows the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which El Toro High is one.

La Madera Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around El Toro High. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts El Toro High at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 54.4%.

El Toro High operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. El Toro High's enrollment has decreased 22% since 2018, when it stood at 2,436 (now 1,902). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 45% to 32%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 24.2:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 today.

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