Ladera Vista Junior High School of the Arts

Set in Fullerton, California, Ladera Vista Junior High School of the Arts is a mid-sized middle-grades school, one of the schools within Fullerton Elementary. It works with 820 students across grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 24% bigger than the state mean of about 659.

Across the 20 schools in Fullerton Elementary (11,247 students total), Ladera Vista Junior High School of the Arts accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Ladera Vista Junior High School of the Arts logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 20% White, 8% Asian, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Ladera Vista Junior High School of the Arts tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.7%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Orange County shows median household earnings sit near $116,289, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which Ladera Vista Junior High School of the Arts is one.

Nearest neighbor: Commonwealth Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ladera Vista Junior High School of the Arts. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ladera Vista Junior High School of the Arts at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 51.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Ladera Vista Junior High School of the Arts's enrollment has shrank 15% since 2018, when it stood at 966 (now 820). Over the same period, the White share declined from 28% to 20%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.6:1 in 2018 to 22.0:1 in 2025.

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