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OCSA
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About OCSA
OCSA is a high-enrollment four-year high school in Santa Ana, California, one of the schools within OCSA District. The school educates 2,346 students in grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 180% above typical.
OCSA is a school of OCSA District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.
For racial and ethnic makeup, OCSA shows that 43% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 23% White, 21% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Asian, putting the school's mix noticeably more Asian than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 130 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 16% of students at OCSA 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 meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
Around the school, 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 the poverty rate sits near 7%. OCSA is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).
Orange County Educational Arts Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.
The campus sits in a downtown setting. OCSA is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
On allk12, the feed for OCSA typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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