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What advice would you give to incoming students at Holder Elementary?
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Enrollment
445
Elementary
DISTRICT 430 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAVANNA ELEMENTARY·NCES 063603009194
Holder Elementary
9550 Holder St., Buena Park, CA 90620 · (714) 236-3840 · Orange County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL445 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
21.2:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.1:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
358 students
DISTRICT 81% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 79 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 60 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is 32% larger than its 6th grade class (60).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
54.8%
CA avg 49.1% . +15.8pp since 2014
Math
51.1%
CA avg 37.7% . +19.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 16 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 19 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 26.5% | 28.3% | 18.3% | 27.0% |
| Math | 26.0% | 25.1% | 27.3% | 21.6% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.8% | 51.1% |
| 2023-24 | 53.8% | 52.9% |
| 2022-23 | 53.9% | 51.3% |
| 2021-22 | 52.7% | 48.1% |
| 2020-21 | 48.0% | 42.1% |
| 2018-19 | 55.4% | 52.0% |
| 2017-18 | 49.3% | 45.5% |
| 2016-17 | 45.9% | 44.7% |
| 2015-16 | 49.0% | 43.0% |
| 2014-15 | 39.0% | 32.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
52.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.4%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 32% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Holder Elementary
Holder Elementary's state test result (52.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holder Elementary this school | 445 | 80.4% | 52.8% |
| McKinley Elementary Tracy | 436 | 83.3% | 24.5% |
| Treeview Elementary Hayward | 426 | 75.8% | 15.7% |
| Louis A. Bohn Elementary Tracy | 397 | 82.9% | 31.2% |
| Davis Elementary Stockton | 357 | 81.2% | 18.2% |
| Raymond Temple Elementary Buena Park | 431 | 78.2% | 50.0% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Holder Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.8% | #1,536 of 5,151 | #198 of 381 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.1% | #1,517 of 5,172 ▼ 163 | #191 of 382 ▼ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.8% | #1,702 of 5,172 ▼ 68 | #201 of 382 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.5pp | #2,488 of 5,116 | #182 of 381 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 445 | #3,098 of 5,915 | #234 of 404 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.2:1 | #1,630 of 5,352 | #67 of 398 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.1% | #1,605 of 5,354 | #138 of 398 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.4% | #2,148 of 5,625 | #112 of 400 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.0% | #1,905 of 3,837 | #176 of 324 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
445
-36 (-7%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 482
Student : Teacher
21.2:1
was 25.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 445 | 21 | 21.2:1 | 80% (358) |
| 2023-24 | 453 | 22 | 20.6:1 | 79% (356) |
| 2022-23 | 452 | 23 | 19.6:1 | 77% (348) |
| 2020-21 | 481 | 19 | 25.3:1 | 60% (288) |
| 2017-18 | 530 | 20.5 | 25.9:1 | 68% (360) |
| 2015-16 | 531 | 22 | 24.1:1 | 65% (344) |
| 2010-11 | 494 | N/A | N/A | 71% (353) |
| 2000-01 | 690 | 29 | 23.8:1 | 53% (364) |
| 1990-91 | 482 | 18 | 26.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Holder Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (530 to 445); teachers up 2% (20.5 to 21).
About Holder Elementary
At 9550 Holder St. in Buena Park, California, Holder Elementary operates as a mid-sized elementary school. Its grade span covers kindergarten through 6, with 445 students on the rolls.
Holder Elementary sits within Savanna Elementary, which has 4 schools and 1,719 students.
The student body at Holder Elementary is 57% Hispanic. After that, the student body is 19% Asian, 9% multiracial, 8% White, and 6% Black. Among all residents of Orange County, the Hispanic share is about 34%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 62%.
Holder Elementary has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 21.2:1. Elementary schools in California average 22.3:1, 1.1 more students per teacher than here. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 80% at Holder Elementary. On average, public schools in Orange County report 55%.
Holder Elementary posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 52.8%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in California are predicted to post 32.4%, so the school is 20.4 points ahead and in the state's top 10%.
In the surrounding county, Orange County, median household income comes to about $116,289, about 44% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. The county's public schools total 649, with about 430,458 students.
Orangeview Junior High, about 0.4 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Holder Elementary places 4th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Holder Elementary is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 7%, from 481 to 445. The school's ratio dropped from 25.3:1 to 21.2:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
Holder Elementary has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
3,165,820
Census ACS
Median income
$116,289
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
44%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
649
430,458 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Savanna Elementary
- Twila Reid ElementaryElementary · 490 students
- Hansen ElementaryElementary · 416 students
- Cerritos ElementaryElementary · 368 students
Other schools in Buena Park
- Buena Park HighHigh · 1,682 students
- Charles G. Emery ElementaryElementary · 646 students
- Gordon H. Beatty MiddleMiddle · 641 students
- Buena Park MiddleMiddle · 633 students
- Buena Terra ElementaryElementary · 627 students
- James A. Whitaker ElementaryElementary · 559 students
Nearby schools
- Orangeview Junior High0.4 mi · 612
- Cypress High0.6 mi · 2,685
- Danbrook Elementary0.7 mi · 433
- Hansen Elementary0.7 mi · 416
- Cerritos Elementary0.9 mi · 368
- Western High0.9 mi · 1,446
Frequently asked questions
About Holder ElementaryHow many students attend Holder Elementary?
Holder Elementary enrolls approximately 445 students in grades KG-06.
Is Holder Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Holder Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Holder Elementary have?
Holder Elementary employs 21 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Holder Elementary?
Student demographics at Holder Elementary are roughly 8% White, 57% Hispanic, 6% Black, 19% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Holder Elementary?
Holder Elementary is overseen by Savanna Elementary in Orange County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.