Guin Foss Elementary

Guin Foss Elementary operates as a small primary school in Santa Ana, California, overseen by Tustin Unified. Current enrollment sits at 395 students spanning grades K through 5.

Tustin Unified comprises 28 schools with combined enrollment of 21,220 students; Guin Foss Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Guin Foss Elementary lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%. Other groups include 19% White, 9% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Guin Foss Elementary records 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.5:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Guin Foss Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.9%, the actual is 53.5%, a residual of +10.7 points.

Around the school, Orange County reports that median household earnings sit near $116,289, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Guin Foss Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Barbara Benson Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Guin Foss Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Guin Foss Elementary at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 47.7%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Guin Foss Elementary's enrollment has shrank 11% since 2018, when it stood at 443 (now 395). White enrollment moved from 28% to 19% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 27.7:1 in 2018 to 25.5:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.