Linda Vista Elementary

Linda Vista Elementary is a tight-knit elementary-level community in Yorba Linda, California, run under Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified. The school serves 387 students in grades K through 5.

Linda Vista Elementary is one of 34 schools operated by Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified, a district that caters to 22,665 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Linda Vista Elementary lists that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 8% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

On the resource side, The school lists 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 26.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Linda Vista Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 27% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Orange County's rate of about 55%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Linda Vista Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 63.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 75.3%.

In the surrounding community, Orange County reports that 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 Linda Vista Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Esperanza High, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Linda Vista Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Linda Vista Elementary at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 64.2%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Linda Vista Elementary's enrollment has contracted 15% since 2018, when it stood at 455 (now 387). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 62% to 52%. Class-load math has tightened: from 30.3:1 in 2018 to 26.0:1 in 2025.

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