Everett A. Rea Elementary

As a cozy elementary school in Costa Mesa, California, Everett A. Rea Elementary educates 344 students from grades K through 6, part of Newport-Mesa Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Everett A. Rea Elementary sits 26% leaner than that benchmark.

Newport-Mesa Unified comprises 31 schools with combined enrollment of 17,540 students; Everett A. Rea Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Everett A. Rea Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%). Other groups include 2% White. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 93% of students at Everett A. Rea Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Everett A. Rea Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 23.9%; this one delivers 38.7%, a residual of +14.8 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Orange County shows median household income runs about $116,289, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Everett A. Rea Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Nearest neighbor: Pomona Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Everett A. Rea Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.5%.

Everett A. Rea Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Everett A. Rea Elementary's enrollment has decreased 24% since 2018, when it stood at 451 (now 344). Class-load math has pulled in: from 26.7:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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