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What's the most underrated thing about Martin R. Heninger Elementary that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
783
Elementary
DISTRICT 530 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SANTA ANA UNIFIED·NCES 063531000758
Martin R. Heninger Elementary
417 West Walnut St., Santa Ana, CA 92701 · (714) 953-3800 · Orange County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL783 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 26% of California public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
21.5:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.3:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
740 students
DISTRICT 91% · 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 | 72 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 78 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 102 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 108 | 14% |
| Grade 8 | 100 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is 28% smaller than its 8th grade class (100).
Student demographics
4%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 8% · 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
30.8%
CA avg 49.1% . +9.8pp since 2014
Math
16.7%
CA avg 37.7% . -1.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 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 10 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 1 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 9.8% | 20.9% | 27.2% | 42.0% |
| Math | 5.4% | 11.3% | 32.1% | 51.2% |
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 | 30.8% | 16.7% |
| 2023-24 | 32.0% | 18.4% |
| 2022-23 | 25.7% | 18.3% |
| 2021-22 | 28.8% | 15.4% |
| 2018-19 | 30.8% | 24.5% |
| 2017-18 | 32.8% | 25.1% |
| 2016-17 | 28.1% | 23.4% |
| 2015-16 | 27.0% | 20.0% |
| 2014-15 | 21.0% | 18.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
24.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
24.2%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 24% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 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 Martin R. Heninger Elementary
Martin R. Heninger Elementary's state test result (24.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martin R. Heninger Elementary this school | 783 | 94.5% | 24.4% |
| Miles Avenue Elementary Huntington Park | 788 | 94.3% | 28.9% |
| Manuel Esqueda Elementary Santa Ana | 811 | 94.3% | 18.8% |
| Madison Elementary Santa Ana | 749 | 94.1% | 26.6% |
| Curren Elementary Oxnard | 817 | 93.0% | 25.3% |
| Romero-Cruz Academy Santa Ana | 827 | 95.8% | 10.4% |
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 Martin R. Heninger Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.4% | #4,143 of 5,151 | #352 of 381 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.7% | #4,596 of 5,172 ▼ 245 | #365 of 382 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.8% | #3,906 of 5,172 ▼ 336 | #333 of 382 ▼ 19 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.6pp | #2,813 of 5,116 | #205 of 381 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 783 | #433 of 5,915 | #38 of 404 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.5:1 | #1,817 of 5,352 | #73 of 398 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 3.5% | #5,265 of 5,354 | #391 of 398 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.5% | #504 of 5,625 | #15 of 400 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -34.6% | #314 of 3,837 | #35 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
783
-286 (-27%) vs 2020
-31% since 2000-01, when it was 1,127
Student : Teacher
21.5:1
was 27.4:1
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 | 783 | 36.5 | 21.5:1 | 95% (740) |
| 2023-24 | 840 | 37.8 | 22.2:1 | 86% (725) |
| 2022-23 | 900 | 39.8 | 22.6:1 | 76% (685) |
| 2020-21 | 1,069 | 39 | 27.4:1 | 92% (981) |
| 2017-18 | 1,198 | 42 | 28.5:1 | 90% (1,078) |
| 2015-16 | 1,198 | 42 | 28.5:1 | 95% (1,134) |
| 2010-11 | 859 | N/A | N/A | 99% (847) |
| 2000-01 | 1,127 | 56 | 20.1:1 | 88% (991) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Martin R. Heninger Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 35% (1,198 to 783); teachers down 13% (42 to 36.5).
About Martin R. Heninger Elementary
Martin R. Heninger Elementary is one of the public schools in Santa Ana, California. It is a large elementary school. There are 783 students enrolled, covering kindergarten through 8. Across elementary schools in California, the average enrollment is about 465.
Santa Ana Unified runs 51 schools with a combined 35,993 students. Martin R. Heninger Elementary is one of them.
Hispanic students account for 98% of the school's enrollment. Orange County's residents are about 34% Hispanic, 64 points below the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 4, compared with 70 nationally.
With 36.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 21.5:1. The average for elementary schools in California is 22.3:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Martin R. Heninger Elementary, 95% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 55% for public schools in Orange County.
Among California public elementary schools, Martin R. Heninger Elementary outscored 26%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
Martin R. Heninger Elementary's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 24.4% is within a point of the 24.2% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In the wider Orange County area, the median household earns about $116,289 a year, about 44% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Martin R. Heninger Elementary shares Orange County with 648 other public schools.
Martin R. Heninger Elementary's closest public school neighbor is Santa Ana High, about 0.1 miles away. The five-mile area around Martin R. Heninger Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Martin R. Heninger Elementary at 2nd of 4.
NCES describes the area around Martin R. Heninger Elementary as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 783 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 1,069. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 27.4:1 to 21.5:1.
This page is set up for the Martin R. Heninger Elementary community to discuss open houses, carpools, and field trips. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
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Frequently asked questions
About Martin R. Heninger ElementaryHow large is Martin R. Heninger Elementary?
Martin R. Heninger Elementary enrolls approximately 783 students in grades KG-08.
Is Martin R. Heninger Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Martin R. Heninger Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
How many teachers does Martin R. Heninger Elementary have?
Martin R. Heninger Elementary employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.5:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Martin R. Heninger Elementary?
At Martin R. Heninger Elementary, the student body is approximately 0% White, 98% Hispanic, 0% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is Martin R. Heninger Elementary public or private?
Martin R. Heninger Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Santa Ana Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.