Jack L. Weaver Elementary

Jack L. Weaver Elementary is one of the reasonably sized elementary campuss in Los Alamitos, California, run under Los Alamitos Unified, with 640 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 38% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Across the 9 schools in Los Alamitos Unified (8,702 students total), Jack L. Weaver Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Jack L. Weaver Elementary records that 36% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 21% White, 20% Hispanic, 20% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Asian, putting the school's mix considerably more Asian than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Jack L. Weaver Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 10% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Orange County's rate of about 55%.

With demographic context factored in, Jack L. Weaver Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 73.4%; this one delivers 92.2%, a residual of +18.8 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%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Jack L. Weaver Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Richard Henry Lee Elementary, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jack L. Weaver Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jack L. Weaver Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 76.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Jack L. Weaver Elementary's enrollment has decreased 6% since 2018, when it stood at 683 (now 640). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 31% to 21%.

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