Legacy Magnet Academy

As a mid-tier high school in Tustin, California, Legacy Magnet Academy educates 964 students from grades 6 through 12, part of Tustin Unified.

Tustin Unified comprises 28 schools with combined enrollment of 21,220 students; Legacy Magnet Academy is among them.

On the student-mix side, Legacy Magnet Academy records that the most-represented group is Asian (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 21% White, 11% multiracial. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 26.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Roughly 32% of students at Legacy Magnet Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Legacy Magnet Academy ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 60.2%; Legacy Magnet Academy posts 79.8%, +19.6 points above that line.

Around the school, census data for Orange County shows the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Legacy Magnet Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Heritage Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Legacy Magnet Academy comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.8%.

Legacy Magnet Academy operates from a high-density location.

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