Fremont Elementary

As a small elementary school in Santa Ana, California, Fremont Elementary enrolls 394 students from grades K through 5, part of Santa Ana Unified.

Within Santa Ana Unified, which oversees 51 schools and 35,993 students, Fremont Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Fremont Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%). That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 93% of students at Fremont Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Orange County's rate of about 55%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fremont Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.1%; this one delivers 35.7%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Orange County) logs that median household earnings sit near $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%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Fremont Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Vista Condor Global Academy, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Fremont Elementary at 1st of 5; the average score across the group is 23.1%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Fremont Elementary's enrollment has edged down 32% since 2018, when it stood at 580 (now 394). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 29.0:1 in 2018 to 24.5:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.