Newport Heights Elementary

Newport Heights Elementary is one of the mid-sized elementary campuss in Newport Beach, California, one of the schools within Newport-Mesa Unified, with 502 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Newport-Mesa Unified runs 31 schools in total, collectively educating 17,540 students. Newport Heights Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Newport Heights Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 60% of enrollment. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 43% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 30% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Orange County's rate of about 55%.

With demographic context factored in, Newport Heights Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.5%; this one delivers 67.5%.

Across the wider county, Orange County reports that median household income runs about $116,289, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Newport Heights Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Newport Harbor High, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Newport Heights Elementary. On composite proficiency, Newport Heights Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 59.5%.

Newport Heights Elementary operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 17%: 603 students in 2018 compared to 502 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 in 2025.

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