Esperanza High

As a well-populated 9-12 campus in Anaheim, California, Esperanza High instructs 1,393 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 66% larger than the state mean of about 838.

Within Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified, which oversees 34 schools and 22,665 students, Esperanza High is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Esperanza High lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 36% White, 15% Asian, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Esperanza High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.7%; this one delivers 63.0%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Orange County) records that median household income runs about $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which Esperanza High is one.

Glenview Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Esperanza High ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 67.3%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Esperanza High has edged down 16%, going from 1,664 students in 2018 to 1,393 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 55% to 36% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.4:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 in 2025.

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