Olive Elementary

Olive Elementary is one of the close-knit elementary schools in Orange, California, run under Orange Unified, with 319 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 31% below the state mean of about 465.

Orange Unified comprises 40 schools with combined enrollment of 23,790 students; Olive Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Olive Elementary reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 71%; the rest looks like 18% White, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 75% of students are eligible 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Olive Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.0%, the actual is 34.1%, a residual of -1.0 points.

Around the school, Orange County reports that median household income runs about $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Olive Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

The closest other public school is Nohl Canyon Elementary, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Olive Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 46.4%.

Olive Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Olive Elementary has decreased 6%, going from 340 students in 2018 to 319 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 26.6:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 today.

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