Gauer (Melbourne A.) Elementary

Set in Anaheim, California, Gauer (Melbourne A.) Elementary is a mid-tier K-5 school, overseen by Anaheim Elementary. It educates 487 students across grades K through 6.

Gauer (Melbourne A.) Elementary is one of 24 schools operated by Anaheim Elementary, a district that enrolls 13,964 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Gauer (Melbourne A.) Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (82%); the rest comes out to 8% Asian, 3% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Gauer (Melbourne A.) Elementary shows 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Gauer (Melbourne A.) Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 65% of students at Gauer (Melbourne A.) 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 above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Gauer (Melbourne A.) Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 27.8%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Orange County) records that the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Gauer (Melbourne A.) Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Brookhurst Junior High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Gauer (Melbourne A.) Elementary. On composite proficiency, Gauer (Melbourne A.) Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 35.5%.

Gauer (Melbourne A.) Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 31%: 701 students in 2018 compared to 487 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 28.0:1 in 2018 to 24.4:1 in 2025.

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