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What's the one class at Fairmont Elementary every student should take?
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Enrollment
794
Elementary
DISTRICT 527 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PLACENTIA-YORBA LINDA UNIFIED·NCES 063066004759
Fairmont Elementary
5241 Fairmont Blvd., Yorba Linda, CA 92886 · (714) 986-7130 · Orange County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL794 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 89% of California public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
25.0:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.8:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
184 students
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 133 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 112 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 111 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 107 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 124 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 126 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (133) is 6% larger than its 6th grade class (126).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
81.1%
CA avg 49.1% . +4.1pp since 2014
Math
75.5%
CA avg 37.7% . +0.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 52.7% | 28.4% | 11.3% | 7.7% |
| Math | 48.7% | 26.8% | 17.4% | 7.1% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 81.1% | 75.5% |
| 2023-24 | 81.3% | 73.4% |
| 2022-23 | 80.0% | 77.6% |
| 2021-22 | 81.6% | 78.9% |
| 2018-19 | 87.2% | 82.5% |
| 2017-18 | 87.2% | 85.2% |
| 2016-17 | 78.5% | 80.7% |
| 2015-16 | 80.0% | 79.0% |
| 2014-15 | 77.0% | 75.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
77.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.0%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Fairmont Elementary
Fairmont Elementary's state test result (77.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairmont Elementary this school | 794 | 23.2% | 77.9% |
| Crescent Elementary Anaheim | 805 | 26.1% | 82.6% |
| Alderwood Elementary Irvine | 770 | 25.5% | 65.1% |
| Stevenson Ranch Elementary Stevenson Ranch | 764 | 21.9% | 86.2% |
| Welby Way Charter Elem Sch And Gifted-High Ability Magnet West Hills | 755 | 28.6% | 81.9% |
| Oak Hills Elementary Valencia | 660 | 24.2% | 78.9% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Fairmont Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.9% | #314 of 5,151 | #48 of 381 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.5% | #402 of 5,172 ▲ 61 | #59 of 382 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 81.1% | #217 of 5,172 ▼ 21 | #35 of 382 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.0pp | #1,231 of 5,116 | #96 of 381 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 794 | #406 of 5,915 | #36 of 404 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 25.0:1 | #4,449 of 5,352 | #260 of 398 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.3% | #593 of 5,354 | #42 of 398 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.2% | #5,035 of 5,625 | #342 of 400 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.8% | #2,842 of 3,837 | #258 of 324 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
794
-15 (-2%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 1,172
Student : Teacher
25.0:1
was 26.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 794 | 31.7 | 25.0:1 | 23% (184) |
| 2023-24 | 834 | 31.5 | 26.5:1 | 21% (175) |
| 2022-23 | 846 | 30 | 28.2:1 | 22% (185) |
| 2020-21 | 809 | 31 | 26.1:1 | 23% (183) |
| 2017-18 | 871 | 31 | 28.1:1 | 12% (105) |
| 2015-16 | 908 | 31 | 29.3:1 | 10% (92) |
| 2010-11 | 944 | N/A | N/A | 4% (42) |
| 2000-01 | 1,168 | 55 | 21.2:1 | 2% (23) |
| 1990-91 | 1,172 | 41 | 28.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fairmont Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (871 to 794); teachers up 2% (31 to 31.7).
About Fairmont Elementary
A large elementary school in Yorba Linda, California, Fairmont Elementary is part of Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified. The school enrolls 794 students, from kindergarten through 6. Average enrollment for elementary schools in California is about 465, so this school runs 71% bigger than that.
Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified (34 schools, 22,665 students) runs Fairmont Elementary.
White students are the largest group at Fairmont Elementary, with 36% of enrollment. Next come 34% Asian, 22% Hispanic, and 8% multiracial. Fairmont Elementary has a diversity index of 70%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school employs the equivalent of 31.7 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 25.0:1. Among elementary schools in California, the typical ratio is 22.3:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 23%. On average, public schools in Orange County report 55%.
allk12 grades Fairmont Elementary an A. The grade compares the school only with California public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Fairmont Elementary scores 77.9% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 66.0%.
Orange County has about 3,165,820 residents, and median household income is about $116,289, about 44% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 649 public schools in Orange County, with a combined enrollment of about 430,458.
The nearest public school is Orange County School of Computer Science, at about 0.3 miles. Fairmont Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 63.6%, lower than Fairmont Elementary's 77.9%.
NCES describes the area around Fairmont Elementary as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at Fairmont Elementary was 809 in 2020-21 and 794 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 26.1:1 to 25.0:1.
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Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
3,165,820
Census ACS
Median income
$116,289
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
44%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
649
430,458 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified
- Valencia HighHigh · 2,411 students
- El Dorado HighHigh · 1,998 students
- Yorba Linda HighHigh · 1,631 students
- Esperanza HighHigh · 1,393 students
- Travis RanchElementary · 1,197 students
- Kraemer MiddleMiddle · 889 students
Other schools in Yorba Linda
- Yorba Linda HighHigh · 1,631 students
- Travis RanchElementary · 1,197 students
- Yorba Linda MiddleMiddle · 818 students
- Orange County School of Computer ScienceMiddle · 753 students
- Bryant Ranch ElementaryElementary · 505 students
- Mabel M. Paine ElementaryElementary · 419 students
Other Fairmont Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 5 states are named Fairmont Elementary. Fairmont Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 7.
- Fairmont ElementarySanger, CA · 744 students
- Fairmont ElementaryEl Cerrito, CA · 537 students
- FAIRMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLFAIRMONT, MN · 1,007 students
- Fairmont Elementary SchoolPASADENA, TX · 776 students
- Fairmont ElementaryJohnson City, TN · 530 students
Nearby schools
- Orange County School of Computer Science0.3 mi · 753
- Yorba Linda High0.8 mi · 1,631
- Linda Vista Elementary1.1 mi · 387
- Glenknoll Elementary1.2 mi · 390
- Esperanza High1.4 mi · 1,393
- Mabel M. Paine Elementary1.5 mi · 419
Frequently asked questions
About Fairmont ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Fairmont Elementary?
Fairmont Elementary enrolls approximately 794 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Fairmont Elementary serve?
Fairmont Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Fairmont Elementary?
Approximately 25.0:1 students per teacher at Fairmont Elementary.
How diverse is Fairmont Elementary?
Fairmont Elementary reports a student body of 36% White, 22% Hispanic, 1% Black, 34% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Fairmont Elementary?
Fairmont Elementary is overseen by Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified in Orange County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.