Mabel M. Paine Elementary

Mabel M. Paine Elementary is a primary school of mid-sized scale in Yorba Linda, California, overseen by Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified, serveing 419 students in grades K through 5.

Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified comprises 34 schools with combined enrollment of 22,665 students; Mabel M. Paine Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Mabel M. Paine Elementary shows that the largest single group is Asian at 36%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 28% White, 26% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 22% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Mabel M. Paine Elementary has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 41% of students at Mabel M. Paine Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Orange County's rate of about 55%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mabel M. Paine Elementary 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 55.0%; Mabel M. Paine Elementary posts 74.0%, +18.9 points above that line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Orange County put median household income runs about $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Mabel M. Paine Elementary is one.

Yorba Linda Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mabel M. Paine Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 69.2%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Mabel M. Paine Elementary's enrollment has contracted 6% since 2018, when it stood at 445 (now 419). Asian enrollment moved from 22% to 36% across the same window.

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