Oak Grove Elementary

Oak Grove Elementary is one of the mid-tier elementary campuss in Aliso Viejo, California, overseen by Capistrano Unified, with 569 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 22% bigger than typical.

Across the 58 schools in Capistrano Unified (40,251 students total), Oak Grove Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Oak Grove Elementary shows that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 17% multiracial, 15% Asian.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.7:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 32% of students at Oak Grove Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Oak Grove Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.4%; this one delivers 69.8%.

In the broader community, Orange County reports that median household earnings sit near $116,289, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Oak Grove Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Don Juan Avila Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oak Grove Elementary. On composite proficiency, Oak Grove Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 63.8%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Oak Grove Elementary's enrollment has edged down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 682 (now 569). White enrollment moved from 54% to 49% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 31.0:1 in 2018 to 23.7:1 today.

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