Enrollment
302
Elementary
DISTRICT 480 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CAPISTRANO UNIFIED·NCES 060744008540
Kinoshita Elementary
2 Via Positiva, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675 · (949) 489-2131 · Orange County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL302 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 26% of California public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
22.4:1
14 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.7:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
276 students
DISTRICT 37% · STATE 65%
Community
0
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 | 43 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 42 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 53 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 46 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 21% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is 23% smaller than its 5th grade class (56).
Student demographics
7%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
28.9%
CA avg 49.1% . +4.9pp since 2014
Math
20.6%
CA avg 37.7% . +4.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 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 5 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 5 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 12.2% | 16.7% | 31.4% | 39.7% |
| Math | 7.5% | 13.1% | 33.1% | 46.3% |
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 | 28.9% | 20.6% |
| 2023-24 | 28.3% | 19.2% |
| 2022-23 | 30.4% | 23.5% |
| 2021-22 | 24.1% | 18.6% |
| 2018-19 | 31.4% | 28.0% |
| 2017-18 | 33.3% | 27.7% |
| 2016-17 | 31.9% | 23.1% |
| 2015-16 | 29.0% | 24.0% |
| 2014-15 | 24.0% | 16.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
24.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.0%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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%.
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 Kinoshita Elementary
Kinoshita Elementary's state test result (24.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kinoshita Elementary this school | 302 | 91.4% | 24.1% |
| Furgeson (Venn W.) Elementary Hawaiian Gardens | 297 | 92.6% | 27.6% |
| Fourth Street Elementary Los Angeles | 303 | 90.8% | 28.4% |
| El Capitan Elementary Delhi | 289 | 91.0% | 30.5% |
| Barbara Webster Elementary Santa Paula | 325 | 90.5% | 26.0% |
| Marianna Avenue Elementary Los Angeles | 281 | 92.2% | 35.3% |
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 Kinoshita Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.1% | #4,177 of 5,151 | #355 of 381 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.6% | #4,239 of 5,172 ▲ 22 | #354 of 382 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.9% | #4,089 of 5,172 ▼ 116 | #345 of 382 ▼ 8 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.4pp | #2,143 of 5,116 | #152 of 381 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 302 | #4,746 of 5,915 | #376 of 404 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.4:1 | #2,487 of 5,352 | #114 of 398 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 7.1% | #5,098 of 5,354 | #373 of 398 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.4% | #911 of 5,625 | #44 of 400 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -48.8% | #37 of 3,837 | #3 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
302
-159 (-34%) vs 2020
-48% since 2000-01, when it was 577
Student : Teacher
22.4:1
was 27.1:1
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 | 302 | 13.5 | 22.4:1 | 91% (276) |
| 2023-24 | 322 | 13 | 24.8:1 | 89% (286) |
| 2022-23 | 369 | 16 | 23.1:1 | 90% (332) |
| 2020-21 | 461 | 17 | 27.1:1 | 92% (422) |
| 2017-18 | 590 | 24 | 24.6:1 | 95% (560) |
| 2015-16 | 650 | 23 | 28.3:1 | 93% (602) |
| 2010-11 | 659 | N/A | N/A | 97% (640) |
| 2000-01 | 577 | 26 | 22.2:1 | 87% (500) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kinoshita Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 49% (590 to 302); teachers down 44% (24 to 13.5).
About Kinoshita Elementary
Families in San Juan Capistrano, California, are served by Kinoshita Elementary, a small elementary school. It enrolled 302 students in kindergarten through 5 for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 35% lower than the average for elementary schools in California, which is about 465.
Within Capistrano Unified, Kinoshita Elementary is one of 58 schools. The district enrolls 40,251 students.
Hispanic students make up 96% of enrollment at Kinoshita Elementary. For comparison, the population of Orange County is roughly 34% Hispanic. Kinoshita Elementary's diversity index is 7%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal staffing data show 13.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at Kinoshita Elementary and a ratio of 22.4:1. For comparison, elementary schools in California average 22.3:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 91% of students. The gap from the 55% average for public schools in Orange County is 36 points.
allk12 grades Kinoshita Elementary a C. The grade compares the school only with California public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Kinoshita Elementary posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 24.1%, compared with a predicted 26.0%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of California schools on BeatsExpectations.
Federal survey data for Orange County show that the median household income is $116,289, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 44% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Orange County is home to 649 public schools and about 430,458 public school students.
The next-closest public school is Marco Forster Middle, about 0.2 miles away. Kinoshita Elementary is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 159 fewer students in 2024-25. The number of students per teacher fell from 27.1 to 22.4 over 4 years.
Threads on this page can be about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Capistrano Unified
- San Clemente HighHigh · 2,740 students
- San Juan Hills HighHigh · 2,641 students
- Aliso Niguel HighHigh · 2,563 students
- Tesoro HighHigh · 2,030 students
- Capistrano Valley HighHigh · 1,991 students
- Dana Hills HighHigh · 1,725 students
Other schools in San Juan Capistrano
- California Online Public Schools Southern CaliforniaCombined · 3,933 students
- San Juan Hills HighHigh · 2,641 students
- Marco Forster MiddleMiddle · 930 students
- San Juan ElementaryElementary · 662 students
- Harold Ambuehl ElementaryElementary · 324 students
- Del Obispo ElementaryElementary · 310 students
Nearby schools
- Marco Forster Middle0.2 mi · 930
- Del Obispo Elementary0.2 mi · 310
- California Preparatory Academy0.5 mi · 198
- Capistrano Home/Virtual0.5 mi · 82
- California Online Public Schools Southern California0.9 mi · 3,933
- California Online Public Schools Central Coast0.9 mi · 105
Frequently asked questions
About Kinoshita ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Kinoshita Elementary?
Kinoshita Elementary enrolls approximately 302 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Kinoshita Elementary serve?
Kinoshita Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Kinoshita Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Kinoshita Elementary is approximately 22.4:1 (14 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Kinoshita Elementary?
Kinoshita Elementary reports a student body of 2% White, 96% Hispanic, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Kinoshita Elementary in?
Kinoshita Elementary is part of Capistrano Unified.
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