Nicolas Junior High

Nicolas Junior High is a compact intermediate school in Fullerton, California, operated by Fullerton Elementary. The school caters to 539 students in grades 7 through 8.

Nicolas Junior High is one of 20 schools operated by Fullerton Elementary, a district that serves 11,247 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Nicolas Junior High lists that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 4% White, 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Nicolas Junior High tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Orange County's rate of about 55%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Nicolas Junior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.3%, the actual is 32.0%, a residual of +1.7 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Orange County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, 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), Nicolas Junior High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Pacific Drive Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Nicolas Junior High comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.1%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 23%: 703 students in 2018 compared to 539 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 23.5:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 today.

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