Mattie Lou Maxwell

Mattie Lou Maxwell is a K-5 school of mid-sized scale in Anaheim, California, run under Magnolia Elementary, serveing 577 students in grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 24% larger than the state mean of about 465.

Magnolia Elementary runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 4,765 students. Mattie Lou Maxwell is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mattie Lou Maxwell shows that 75% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 12% Asian, 8% White, 3% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mattie Lou Maxwell performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.6%, the actual is 32.4%, a residual of +3.8 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate median household earnings sit near $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Mattie Lou Maxwell is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Nearest neighbor: Dale Junior High, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mattie Lou Maxwell comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 40.6%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mattie Lou Maxwell has decreased 26%, going from 780 students in 2018 to 577 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 26.0:1 in 2018 to 23.1:1 today.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.