Glenknoll Elementary

Glenknoll Elementary, a close-knit K-5 school in Yorba Linda, California, run under Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified, hosts 390 students, covering grades K through 6.

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

Demographically, Glenknoll Elementary lists that the most-represented group is White (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 31% Hispanic, 18% Asian, 7% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Orange County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Glenknoll Elementary has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 29% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Glenknoll Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.4%, the actual is 74.5%, a residual of +12.1 points.

In the area at large, census data for Orange County shows median household earnings sit near $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Glenknoll Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

The closest other public school is Woodsboro Elementary, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Glenknoll Elementary comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 64.4%.

Glenknoll Elementary operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Glenknoll Elementary has contracted 21%, going from 492 students in 2018 to 390 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 24% to 31% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 30.8:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 today.

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