Enrollment
387
Elementary
DISTRICT 527 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PLACENTIA-YORBA LINDA UNIFIED·NCES 063066009616
Linda Vista Elementary
5600 South Ohio St., Yorba Linda, CA 92886 · (714) 986-7200 · Orange County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL387 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 83% of California public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-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
26.0:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.8:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
105 students
DISTRICT 47% · 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 | 96 | 25% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 51 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (96) is 71% larger than its 5th grade class (56).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
70.3%
CA avg 49.1% . -6.7pp since 2014
Math
74.9%
CA avg 37.7% . -0.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 41.7% | 28.6% | 22.3% | 7.4% |
| Math | 48.6% | 26.3% | 18.9% | 6.3% |
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 | 70.3% | 74.9% |
| 2023-24 | 71.0% | 79.5% |
| 2022-23 | 71.2% | 70.6% |
| 2021-22 | 76.5% | 78.1% |
| 2018-19 | 84.9% | 80.3% |
| 2017-18 | 77.6% | 78.5% |
| 2016-17 | 76.7% | 74.8% |
| 2015-16 | 78.0% | 78.0% |
| 2014-15 | 77.0% | 75.0% |
% 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
73.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.6%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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 Linda Vista Elementary
Linda Vista Elementary's state test result (73.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linda Vista Elementary this school | 387 | 27.1% | 73.8% |
| John H. Eader Elementary Huntington Beach | 416 | 27.9% | 76.1% |
| Maidu Elementary Roseville | 450 | 27.3% | 60.2% |
| Cobblestone Elementary Rocklin | 372 | 31.2% | 64.9% |
| Red Hill Elementary Santa Ana | 436 | 28.9% | 75.2% |
| Las Flores Elementary Rancho Santa Margarita | 328 | 26.5% | 76.0% |
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 Linda Vista Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.8% | #477 of 5,151 | #73 of 381 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.9% | #420 of 5,172 ▼ 174 | #63 of 382 ▼ 37 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.3% | #735 of 5,172 ▼ 70 | #116 of 382 ▼ 15 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.7pp | #621 of 5,116 | #34 of 381 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 387 | #3,847 of 5,915 | #304 of 404 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 26.0:1 | #4,842 of 5,352 | #302 of 398 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.9% | #1,387 of 5,354 | #123 of 398 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.1% | #4,884 of 5,625 | #323 of 400 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.9% | #2,047 of 3,837 | #194 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
387
+16 (+4%) vs 2020
+16% since 1990-91, when it was 333
Student : Teacher
26.0:1
was 24.7:1
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 | 387 | 14.9 | 26.0:1 | 27% (105) |
| 2023-24 | 375 | 13 | 28.9:1 | 26% (96) |
| 2022-23 | 382 | 13 | 29.4:1 | 30% (116) |
| 2020-21 | 371 | 15 | 24.7:1 | 30% (112) |
| 2017-18 | 455 | 15 | 30.3:1 | 15% (66) |
| 2015-16 | 441 | 15 | 29.4:1 | 10% (46) |
| 2010-11 | 438 | N/A | N/A | 9% (38) |
| 2000-01 | 442 | 23 | 19.2:1 | 2% (10) |
| 1990-91 | 333 | 15 | 22.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Linda Vista Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (455 to 387); teachers down 1% (15 to 14.9).
About Linda Vista Elementary
Linda Vista Elementary is an elementary school located in Yorba Linda, California, in Orange County. Its 387 students are spread across kindergarten through 5.
The district, Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified, operates 34 schools serving 22,665 students.
Linda Vista Elementary is 52% White by enrollment. Other reported shares: 26% Hispanic, 14% Asian, and 8% multiracial. That compares with about 43% White among all Orange County residents. The school's diversity index is 64%, meaning two students picked at random have a 64% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Teachers at Linda Vista Elementary total 14.9 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 26.0:1. The school has more students per teacher than the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. The school counts 105 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 27%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Orange County is 55%.
The allk12 Grade for Linda Vista Elementary is A-. Compared with California public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 83% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Linda Vista Elementary is 10.2 points above the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 73.8% actual, 63.6% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in California.
Within Orange County, the median household income is $116,289, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 44%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Besides Linda Vista Elementary, Orange County has 648 other public schools.
The closest public school to Linda Vista Elementary is Esperanza High, about 0.7 miles away. Linda Vista Elementary is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Linda Vista Elementary comes in 2nd of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Linda Vista Elementary falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show a 4% enrollment rise, from 371 in 2020-21 to 387 in 2024-25. Students per teacher rose from 24.7 in 2020-21 to 26.0 in 2024-25.
Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified
- Valencia HighHigh · 2,411 students
- El Dorado HighHigh · 1,998 students
- Yorba Linda HighHigh · 1,631 students
- Esperanza HighHigh · 1,393 students
- Travis RanchElementary · 1,197 students
- Kraemer MiddleMiddle · 889 students
Other schools in Yorba Linda
- Yorba Linda HighHigh · 1,631 students
- Travis RanchElementary · 1,197 students
- Yorba Linda MiddleMiddle · 818 students
- Fairmont ElementaryElementary · 794 students
- Orange County School of Computer ScienceMiddle · 753 students
- Bryant Ranch ElementaryElementary · 505 students
Other Linda Vista Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 1 state are named Linda Vista Elementary. Linda Vista Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- Linda Vista ElementarySan Jose, CA · 437 students
- Linda Vista ElementarySan Diego, CA · 362 students
- Linda Vista ElementaryOrange, CA · 289 students
Nearby schools
- Esperanza High0.7 mi · 1,393
- Glenview Elementary0.8 mi · 601
- Fairmont Elementary1.1 mi · 794
- Orange County School of Computer Science1.1 mi · 753
- Glenknoll Elementary1.2 mi · 390
- Mabel M. Paine Elementary1.4 mi · 419
Frequently asked questions
About Linda Vista ElementaryHow many students attend Linda Vista Elementary?
Linda Vista Elementary enrolls approximately 387 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Linda Vista Elementary serve?
Linda Vista Elementary serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Linda Vista Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Linda Vista Elementary is approximately 26.0:1 (15 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Linda Vista Elementary?
At Linda Vista Elementary, the student body is approximately 52% White, 26% Hispanic, 1% Black, 14% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Linda Vista Elementary in?
Linda Vista Elementary is part of Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.