Kinoshita Elementary

Kinoshita Elementary operates as a low-enrollment K-5 school in San Juan Capistrano, California, part of Capistrano Unified. Current enrollment sits at 302 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 35% smaller than the state mean of about 465.

Kinoshita Elementary is one of 58 schools operated by Capistrano Unified, a district that caters to 40,251 students overall.

Demographically, Kinoshita Elementary reports that nearly all students (96%) are Hispanic. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Kinoshita Elementary has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.4:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kinoshita Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.1%, the actual is 23.7%, a residual of -1.4 points.

In the area at large, census data for Orange County shows the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Kinoshita Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Nearest neighbor: Marco Forster Middle, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kinoshita Elementary.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kinoshita Elementary has shrank 49%, going from 590 students in 2018 to 302 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 22.4:1 today.

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