Hicks Canyon Elementary

Set in Irvine, California, Hicks Canyon Elementary is a heavily attended elementary-level community, one of the schools within Tustin Unified. It serves 830 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Hicks Canyon Elementary sits 78% above that benchmark.

Within Tustin Unified, which oversees 28 schools and 21,220 students, Hicks Canyon Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Hicks Canyon Elementary records that the most-represented group is Asian (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 21% White, 16% Hispanic, 11% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Asian, putting the school's mix visibly more Asian than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 26.8:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 37% of students are eligible 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 south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Hicks Canyon Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 57.2%; Hicks Canyon Elementary posts 75.6%, +18.4 points above that line.

Around the school, census data for Orange County shows the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Hicks Canyon Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Nearest neighbor: Myford Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hicks Canyon Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 75.6%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Hicks Canyon Elementary's enrollment has fell 12% since 2018, when it stood at 941 (now 830). White enrollment moved from 26% to 21% across the same window.

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