Martin Elementary

Martin Elementary operates as an average-sized K-5 school in Santa Ana, California, run under Santa Ana Unified. Current enrollment sits at 443 students spanning grades K through 5.

Santa Ana Unified runs 51 schools in total, collectively educating 35,993 students. Martin Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Martin Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (99%). By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Martin Elementary lists 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Orange County's rate of about 55%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Martin Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.8%; this one delivers 32.3%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Orange County put median household income runs about $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which Martin Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Vista Meridian Global Academy, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Martin Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 17.4%.

Martin Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Martin Elementary's enrollment has fell 34% since 2018, when it stood at 674 (now 443). Class-load math has tightened: from 28.1:1 in 2018 to 23.3:1 in 2025.

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