Heritage Elementary

Heritage Elementary, a cozy elementary school in Santa Ana, California, part of Garden Grove Unified, hosts 376 students, covering grades K through 6.

Garden Grove Unified comprises 64 schools with combined enrollment of 36,994 students; Heritage Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Heritage Elementary lists that nearly all students (88%) are Hispanic; the rest looks like 10% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Heritage Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Heritage Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.3%, the actual is 33.4%, a residual of +11.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate median household income runs about $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%. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which Heritage Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Stephen R. Fitz Intermediate, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Heritage Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.7%.

Heritage Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Heritage Elementary has declined 18%, going from 461 students in 2018 to 376 in 2025.

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