Lowell Elementary

Lowell Elementary operates as an average-sized primary school in Santa Ana, California, operated by Santa Ana Unified. Current enrollment sits at 426 students spanning grades K through 5.

Across the 51 schools in Santa Ana Unified (35,993 students total), Lowell Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lowell Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (99%). The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Orange County's rate of about 55%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lowell Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.9%, the actual is 12.4%, a residual of -10.5 points.

In the area at large, Orange County reports that median household income runs about $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Lowell Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Pio Pico Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lowell Elementary at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 21.4%.

Lowell Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lowell Elementary has fell 45%, going from 779 students in 2018 to 426 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 25.1:1 in 2018 to 21.3:1 in 2025.

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