Estancia High

Estancia High is one of the mid-sized secondary schools in Costa Mesa, California, run under Newport-Mesa Unified, with 976 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.

Across the 31 schools in Newport-Mesa Unified (17,540 students total), Estancia High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Estancia High lists that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 11% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Estancia High lists 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Orange County's rate of about 55%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Estancia High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.5%; this one delivers 43.5%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate median household earnings sit near $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Estancia High is one campus in the mix.

Wilson Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Estancia High. On composite proficiency, Estancia High comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 34.6%.

Estancia High operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Estancia High has shrank 23%, going from 1,269 students in 2018 to 976 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 78% to 84% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.4:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 in 2025.

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