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If you could change one rule at Mabel M. Paine Elementary, what would it be?
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Enrollment
419
Elementary
DISTRICT 527 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PLACENTIA-YORBA LINDA UNIFIED·NCES 063066009613
Mabel M. Paine Elementary
4444 Plumosa Dr., Yorba Linda, CA 92886 · (714) 986-7210 · Orange County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL419 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 93% 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.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-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
22.0:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.8:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
41%
172 students
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 65%
Community
6
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 | 95 | 23% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 72 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (95) is 58% larger than its 5th grade class (60).
Student demographics
72%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
72.8%
CA avg 49.1% . +24.8pp since 2014
Math
73.5%
CA avg 37.7% . +20.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 25 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 20 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 49.4% | 23.3% | 13.9% | 13.3% |
| Math | 42.0% | 31.5% | 15.5% | 11.1% |
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 | 72.8% | 73.5% |
| 2023-24 | 76.0% | 72.2% |
| 2022-23 | 71.1% | 67.3% |
| 2021-22 | 73.8% | 72.4% |
| 2018-19 | 68.4% | 71.9% |
| 2017-18 | 66.1% | 69.7% |
| 2016-17 | 65.1% | 71.3% |
| 2015-16 | 60.0% | 65.0% |
| 2014-15 | 48.0% | 53.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
73.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.5%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 55% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 18 points, placing it in California's top 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 Mabel M. Paine Elementary
Mabel M. Paine Elementary's state test result (73.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mabel M. Paine Elementary this school | 419 | 41.1% | 73.5% |
| Alamo Elementary San Francisco | 390 | 40.8% | 69.7% |
| Rex Fortune Elementary Roseville | 412 | 41.5% | 46.3% |
| Argonne Elementary San Francisco | 391 | 37.9% | 63.9% |
| University Park Elementary Irvine | 509 | 35.4% | 58.2% |
| Melrose Avenue Elementary Los Angeles | 419 | 45.8% | 71.3% |
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 Mabel M. Paine Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.5% | #488 of 5,151 | #74 of 381 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.5% | #471 of 5,172 ▲ 35 | #72 of 382 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.8% | #609 of 5,172 ▼ 188 | #93 of 382 ▼ 27 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.0pp | #3,340 of 5,116 | #243 of 381 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 419 | #3,441 of 5,915 | #271 of 404 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.0:1 | #2,166 of 5,352 | #90 of 398 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.6% | #435 of 5,354 | #24 of 398 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 41.1% | #4,293 of 5,625 | #250 of 400 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.8% | #3,227 of 3,837 | #290 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
419
+46 (+12%) vs 2020
-5% since 1990-91, when it was 441
Student : Teacher
22.0:1
was 20.7:1
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 | 419 | 19.1 | 22.0:1 | 41% (172) |
| 2023-24 | 424 | 17 | 24.9:1 | 32% (135) |
| 2022-23 | 406 | 17 | 23.9:1 | 35% (141) |
| 2020-21 | 373 | 18 | 20.7:1 | 38% (143) |
| 2017-18 | 445 | 20.1 | 22.2:1 | 29% (131) |
| 2015-16 | 466 | 18 | 25.9:1 | 19% (90) |
| 2010-11 | 432 | N/A | N/A | 25% (108) |
| 2000-01 | 393 | 20 | 19.6:1 | 19% (73) |
| 1990-91 | 441 | 17 | 25.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mabel M. Paine Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (445 to 419); teachers down 5% (20.1 to 19.1).
About Mabel M. Paine Elementary
Mabel M. Paine Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Yorba Linda, California, one of the schools in Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified. The school enrolls 419 students in kindergarten through 5.
Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified has 22,665 students in 34 schools, and Mabel M. Paine Elementary is one of those schools.
The largest group at Mabel M. Paine Elementary is Asian students, at 36%. The school is also 28% White, 26% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 2% Black. That is higher than the 22% Asian share among all Orange County residents. The diversity index for Mabel M. Paine Elementary is 72%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 22.0:1. The school has 19.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is in line with the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. In all, 41% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The 55% average for public schools in Orange County is 14 points higher.
On the allk12 Grade, Mabel M. Paine Elementary lands at A, ahead of 93% of California public elementary schools.
A school in California with Mabel M. Paine Elementary's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 55.5%. Mabel M. Paine Elementary scores 73.5%.
For Orange County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $116,289, about 44% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. The county has 649 public schools and about 430,458 students.
Mabel M. Paine Elementary is about 0.7 miles from Yorba Linda Middle, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Mabel M. Paine Elementary ranks 5th on average proficiency.
Mabel M. Paine Elementary is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
From 373 students in 2020-21, enrollment rose to 419 by 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 20.7:1 to 22.0:1.
Mabel M. Paine Elementary has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
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
Nearby schools
- Yorba Linda Middle0.7 mi · 818
- Lakeview Elementary0.9 mi · 381
- Van Buren Elementary1.3 mi · 538
- Linda Vista Elementary1.4 mi · 387
- Yorba Linda High1.5 mi · 1,631
- Rose Drive Elementary1.5 mi · 372
Frequently asked questions
About Mabel M. Paine ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Mabel M. Paine Elementary?
Mabel M. Paine Elementary enrolls approximately 419 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Mabel M. Paine Elementary serve?
Mabel M. Paine Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Mabel M. Paine Elementary?
Approximately 22.0:1 students per teacher at Mabel M. Paine Elementary.
How diverse is Mabel M. Paine Elementary?
Mabel M. Paine Elementary reports a student body of 28% White, 26% Hispanic, 2% Black, 36% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Mabel M. Paine Elementary?
Mabel M. Paine Elementary is overseen by Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified in Orange County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.