Fairmont Elementary

Fairmont Elementary is one of the heavily attended K-5 schools in Yorba Linda, California, one of the schools within Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified, with 794 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 71% above typical.

Fairmont Elementary is one of 34 schools operated by Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified, a district that educates 22,665 students overall.

On demographics, Fairmont Elementary logs that 36% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 34% Asian, 22% Hispanic, 8% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Fairmont Elementary shows 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.0:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 23% of students at Fairmont Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fairmont Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.7%, the actual is 77.5%, a residual of +11.8 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Orange County put the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Fairmont Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Orange County School of Computer Science, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Fairmont Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 64.2%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fairmont Elementary has ticked down 9%, going from 871 students in 2018 to 794 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 50% to 36%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 28.1:1 in 2018 to 25.0:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Fairmont Elementary typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.