Newport Elementary

Located at 1327 West Balboa Blvd., in Newport Beach, California, Newport Elementary is an intimate elementary campus that educates 339 students (grades K through 6), run under Newport-Mesa Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Newport Elementary sits 27% below that benchmark.

Across the 31 schools in Newport-Mesa Unified (17,540 students total), Newport Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Newport Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 15% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 43% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Newport Elementary has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 20% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Orange County's rate of about 55%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Newport Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 67.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 76.2%.

Zooming out to the 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 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 Newport Elementary is one.

Horace Ensign Intermediate is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Newport Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 58.9%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 28%: 468 students in 2018 compared to 339 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 76% to 68%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 today.

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