La Veta Elementary

La Veta Elementary operates as a medium-sized primary school in Orange, California, run under Orange Unified. Current enrollment sits at 408 students spanning grades K through 6.

Orange Unified comprises 40 schools with combined enrollment of 23,790 students; La Veta Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, La Veta Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment. Other groups include 13% White, 7% multiracial, 7% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting La Veta Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 69% of students at La Veta Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, La Veta Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.6%; this one delivers 51.8%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Orange County put the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), La Veta Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is OUSD Home Sch, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), La Veta Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 48.0%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 42%: 709 students in 2018 compared to 408 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 28.4:1 in 2018 to 25.9:1 in 2025.

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