Hansen Elementary

Hansen Elementary operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in Anaheim, California, one of the schools within Savanna Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 416 students spanning grades K through 6.

Hansen Elementary is one of 4 schools operated by Savanna Elementary, a district that teaches 1,719 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Hansen Elementary lists that 66% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 18% Asian, 6% White, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Hansen Elementary reports 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 88% of students are eligible 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hansen Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 27.4%; actual is 47.1%, +19.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, Orange County reports that median household earnings sit near $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Hansen Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Cerritos Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hansen Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 45.3%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hansen Elementary has fell 27%, going from 568 students in 2018 to 416 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 25.2:1 in 2018 to 23.1:1 in 2025.

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