Mariposa Elementary

Mariposa Elementary operates as a moderately sized primary school in Brea, California, operated by Brea-Olinda Unified. Current enrollment sits at 504 students spanning grades K through 6.

Across the 10 schools in Brea-Olinda Unified (5,740 students total), Mariposa Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mariposa Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 33% Asian, 21% White, 9% multiracial. Compared to Orange County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Orange County's rate of about 55%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mariposa Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 67.0%.

Across the wider county, census data for Orange County shows the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, 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), Mariposa Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Brea Junior 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 Mariposa Elementary. On composite proficiency, Mariposa Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 55.6%.

Mariposa Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Mariposa Elementary's enrollment has edged down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 605 (now 504). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 36% to 21%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 27.5:1 in 2018 to 24.0:1 today.

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