Juarez (Benito) Elementary

Juarez (Benito) Elementary operates as a mid-tier elementary school in Anaheim, California, overseen by Anaheim Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 581 students spanning grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Juarez (Benito) Elementary sits 25% larger than that benchmark.

Anaheim Elementary comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 13,964 students; Juarez (Benito) Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Juarez (Benito) Elementary logs that nearly all students (83%) are Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 7% Asian, 5% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Juarez (Benito) Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Juarez (Benito) Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.2%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Orange County put median household earnings sit near $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Juarez (Benito) Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Nearest neighbor: South Junior High, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Juarez (Benito) Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 20.6%.

Juarez (Benito) Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Juarez (Benito) Elementary has fell 28%, going from 807 students in 2018 to 581 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 9% to 5% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 26.6:1 in 2018 to 20.8:1 in 2025.

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