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Juliette Low School of the Arts
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 4 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Juliette Low School of the Arts
Juliette Low School of the Arts is a moderately sized elementary school in Anaheim, California, overseen by Magnolia Elementary. The school enrolls 475 students in grades K through 6.
Magnolia Elementary comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 4,765 students; Juliette Low School of the Arts is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Juliette Low School of the Arts logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 65% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 11% White, 10% Asian, 9% Black, 4% 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, On paper, Juliette Low School of the Arts has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Juliette Low School of the Arts higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 76% of students at Juliette Low School of the Arts qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is north of typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Juliette Low School of the Arts tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.3%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Orange County) records that median household income runs about $116,289, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Juliette Low School of the Arts is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).
Savanna High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Juliette Low School of the Arts at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 32.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 21%: 605 students in 2018 compared to 475 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share climbed from 5% to 9%.
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