Lomarena Elementary

Set in Laguna Hills, California, Lomarena Elementary is a mid-tier elementary campus, one of the schools within Saddleback Valley Unified. It hosts 487 students across grades K through 6.

Saddleback Valley Unified runs 33 schools in total, collectively educating 22,646 students. Lomarena Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Lomarena Elementary shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 59%. Other groups include 23% White, 8% Asian, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lomarena Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.4%, the actual is 47.6%, a residual of +9.2 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Orange County) records that median household income runs about $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%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Lomarena Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Laguna Hills High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lomarena Elementary. On composite proficiency, Lomarena Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 51.9%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Lomarena Elementary's enrollment has fell 23% since 2018, when it stood at 635 (now 487). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 39% to 59% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 28.9:1 in 2018 to 22.3:1 today.

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